Jesus
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Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
One of the most provocative and enduring questions in human history — who was Jesus of Nazareth? — receives a bold, scholarly, and deeply human answer in A. N. Wilson's Jesus. Wilson, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers and literary intellectuals, presents a rigorous historical portrait of Jesus, stripping away centuries of theological doctrine to examine the man who walked the dusty roads of first-century Galilee and ignited a movement that would reshape the Western world. Drawing on biblical scholarship, classical sources, and a keen understanding of Jewish culture and Roman political power, Wilson argues that the historical Jesus was a complex, passionately human figure — a Jewish prophet whose revolutionary teachings were only later transformed into the cornerstone of a new religion. Wilson's prose is characteristically sharp, witty, and unafraid of controversy, placing Jesus firmly in the tradition of great revisionist biography. The work challenges both secular sceptics and orthodox believers alike, illuminating the chasm between the Christ of faith and the man of history. Wilson masterfully illustrates how the earliest Christian communities — shaped by figures such as St. Paul — constructed a theological identity that diverged dramatically from Jesus's own Jewish worldview. The result is a portrait that is at once intimate and intellectually electrifying, leaving the reader to wrestle with a timeless question: how much of the man do we truly know?
Author: A. N. Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1992, Sinclair-Stevenson
Genre: Biography
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
One of the most provocative and enduring questions in human history — who was Jesus of Nazareth? — receives a bold, scholarly, and deeply human answer in A. N. Wilson's Jesus. Wilson, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers and literary intellectuals, presents a rigorous historical portrait of Jesus, stripping away centuries of theological doctrine to examine the man who walked the dusty roads of first-century Galilee and ignited a movement that would reshape the Western world. Drawing on biblical scholarship, classical sources, and a keen understanding of Jewish culture and Roman political power, Wilson argues that the historical Jesus was a complex, passionately human figure — a Jewish prophet whose revolutionary teachings were only later transformed into the cornerstone of a new religion. Wilson's prose is characteristically sharp, witty, and unafraid of controversy, placing Jesus firmly in the tradition of great revisionist biography. The work challenges both secular sceptics and orthodox believers alike, illuminating the chasm between the Christ of faith and the man of history. Wilson masterfully illustrates how the earliest Christian communities — shaped by figures such as St. Paul — constructed a theological identity that diverged dramatically from Jesus's own Jewish worldview. The result is a portrait that is at once intimate and intellectually electrifying, leaving the reader to wrestle with a timeless question: how much of the man do we truly know?