Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times

Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe aboutâ€”and how can we believe inâ€”Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion thatÂ followed?

What Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now? Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity.

Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of allâ€”Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the â€œhistorical Jesus,â€ he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. He retrieves theÂ power of Jesusâ€™ profound ordinariness, as an answer to his own last questionâ€”what is the future of Jesus Christ?â€”as the key to a renewal of faith.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-11-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-11-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

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