The Voice, The Voice of Mark, Paperback: Let Them Listen

By Anonymous and Wulfila

Book Overview

MARK STANDS OUT AMONG THE OTHER GOSPELS, and it is sometimes compared to an action-packed movie. There are many Hollywood-esque themes--some that keep us on the edge of our seats, some that make us cry, and some that leave us in wonderment. The Gospel of Mark jumps right into the action of Jesus' story. Mark offers little by way of introduction, mentioning nothing about Jesus' family tree. Unlike Matthew and Luke, he doesn't include the story of Jesus' birth. His account begins with a Scripture quote and moves right into the preaching of John, the wandering prophet. Jesus doesn't just arrive; He is announced. Like the original Greek version of this Gospel, The Voice of Mark is raw and to the point. Who is the Son of Man, and what should that mean in believers' lives? All who have ears to hear, let them listen. (4:9, 23; 7:16) About the Writers: (photo) Greg Garrett is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Free Bird and Cycling , the memoir Crossing Myself , and non-fiction books including The Gospel Reloaded (with Chris Seay), and The Gospel According to Hollywood . He is professor of English at Baylor University and writer in residence at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. (photo) The former editor of CCM magazine, Matthew Paul Turner is the author of The Christian Culture Survival Guide , Provocative Faith , and the memoir Churched . With a focus on sharing spiritual relevancy in today's culture, Matthew is a frequent speaker at college and twenty-something events across the country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0529123509
• ISBN13: 9780529123503
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

beautiful little book, who cares about nick cave!

Beautiful little series of books which I was coveting (mea culpa) long before I bought them. It seems awfully unfair for the people below to give the book such a low rating becase 'nick cave' didn't introduce the chapter. Who cares? I enjoyed the format, design and lush language of the book.

Best and Most Cryptic Gospel w/ great intro

I gather from the other extremely negative reviews that the British edition of this book has an introduction written by Nick Cave. While I'm sure Nick Cave's commentary on Mark is wonderful, so is the introduction by Barry Hannah in the American edition. Barry Hannah, a hilarious and rough-cut Southern novelist whose ability to craft a startling sentence is nearly unsurpassed, is drawn to Mark for reasons likely similar to those that drew Cave (or to those that led Borges to write an astounding story called "The Gospel According to St. Mark"): Mark is the strangest, least comforting of the Gospels, forging a dim and demanding Christianity out of the disquieting words and acts of Jesus with a minimum of explanation. God seems distant and truly ungraspable here; Mark is a million miles from the cloying certitude of the Pauline epistles, or from, say, the more prosaic Matthew. Hannah, a self-described "bad Christian" (again, not so different from Nick Cave, at least by my lights), manages to bring these qualities out beautifully in his introduction. (Hannah also makes "bad Christian" seem like probably the best thing anyone can hope to be.) By all means, get the British edition with Cave's introduction (as I now plan to do), but don't let that keep you from reading Barry Hannah's introduction too.