Jesus of Nazareth How He Understood His Life

By Raymund Schwager

Book Overview

This book takes a unique look at the life of Jesus and asks a new questions: how did Jesus himself come to understand life, and experience his faith? This imaginative narrative grounded in scholarship... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824517113
• ISBN13: 9780824517113
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company, The
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The most intriguing retelling of Jesus' story I have read.

Schwager's telling of the life of Jesus and the early church is fascinating. Faithful to the Gospels and the book of Acts (some events are "rearranged," but plausibly so), it's like a jewel set in a filigree of Old Testament (and Apocryphal) scripture. Indeed, his working of Old Testament references into and through every thought and action of Jesus and the apostles is at times breathtaking. It's not a modern "psychological" or "theological" analysis of Jesus as the title might lead you to believe, but is instead a reverent and powerful retelling of Jesus' life and ministry, through his death and resurrection and into the days of the early church. At once familiar and strange, this book could change the way you read the gospels or view Jesus.Schwager is putting out a scholarly edition of this book which explains and supports the story as he tells it here.