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Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels - eBook
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▼▲Title: Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels - eBook By: Mary Gordon Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Anchor | Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 9780307378590 ISBN-13: 9780307378590 Stock No: WW13378EB |
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▼▲Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscoversand reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardnessis a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.
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▼▲Mark Jarman, author of Epistles
"Gordon tackles the power and puzzle of the Christian gospels with measure and imagination, providing welcome relief for those left cold by scholarly or fundamentalist parsing . . . Her savoring of particular lines is poetic and amplifies the beauty and sometimes ambiguous challenge of the language, stories, and injunctions of the gospels."
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Circling My Mother"What's inspiring about Circling My Mother is Gordon's deeply personal portrayal of her mother . . . a woman in full belief of the love of God . . . Accompanying the author while she comes to terms with her is thrilling."
The New York Times Book Review
"Everywhere she looks, Gordon finds the same mix of life and strife, beauty and decay. There's no escaping the fact that one way or another, we lost what we hold dear. But remembrance is preservation. Art, we believe, immortalizes. Gordon's encircled portrait of her mother is a daring and perceptive work or memory, catharsis, and literary grace."
Los Angeles Times
"Both wrenching and enlivening, resonant with candid emotion."
The Boston Globe
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