The Jesus of History - Couverture souple

Glover, T. R

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517564980 ISBN 13 : 9781517564988

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Who is Jesus?The Christ, God made flesh, the door to eternal salvation to more than two billion Christians worldwide, he is the Messiah, Jesus. To the world’s billion-and-half Muslims he could be an prophet that is honored. The Buddha among the half-billion Buddhists, he is a wise, enlightened man whose teachings are similar to those of Siddhartha. To Jews, the group into which he was born, his name was for centuries something to worry, connected with the murder and oppression of the people performed by fanatics who claimed to be acting in their name; with improved Judeo - Christian relations in the second half of the 20th century, Jesus is now being re-considered in many Jewish circles. In the expressed words of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, he was "a rabbi whom rocked the boat."Savior. Prophet. Teacher. Social rebel. Nevertheless he is viewed, there clearly was one truth that is undeniable This Jewish carpenter from Nazareth became the absolute most influential solitary individual in history. As his supporters spread your message of their ministry to every corner worldwide, the ripple effects created waves in religion, politics, law, art, literature, architecture it is hard to think of an area of human endeavor that hasn't one way or another been touched by that solitary life.Yet the history of that life, the world in which he lived, and the ways in which the story of their life was interwoven to the fabric of societies over centuries are often perhaps not well recognized, even by people who profess to worship him.Who's the Jesus of history? That could be the concern at the heart of a special publication from World History Group: Jesus of History.As its introduction states, "He had an pedigree that is unlikely A carpenter’s son from a little village in a small Roman province on the fringe associated with the kingdom. In his lifetime, he never ever did anything particularly crucial, certainly nothing that could attract the headlines back in Rome or rattle the quills of historians."Yet this Jesus of Nazareth, later called the Christ, became the centerpiece of Western history, his teaching and law that is moral defining civilized culture, looking for justice tempered by mercy and love respected as generosity of spirit."In examining the life of Jesus, the spread associated with faith that became understood as Christianity, and also the impact of the faith on culture, the arts and other realms, Jesus of History examines the story told in the Gospels. It looks into that which was learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Rabbis and other scholars discuss the entire world in which Jesus was born and early years regarding the new faith. A timeline shows the consequences of Christianity on ancient Rome, and a chapter titled "Failing Jesus" examines how Christians went from being the oppressed to too often being the oppressors whenever politics and greed were allowed to corrupt his message. A gallery of paintings and sculptures raise the concern, "What did Jesus look like?" The publication also explores "7 methods Jesus influenced America."Whatever your views on Jesus as a figure that is religious be, we’d like to ask: What do you regard as the most important impact Jesus and the faith that grew up around him had on the length of history and/or the arts?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517564980
• ISBN 13: 9781517564988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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