Jesus: The Image of Humanity: Luke's Account
By (Author) Anselm Grn
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Burns & Oates Ltd
19th December 2005
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Religious and spiritual figures
Theology
Christian life and practice
226.406
Paperback
158
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
191g
"I want to connect what concerns people today with what it was about Jesus that fascinated Luke, as a man of his lifetime... I want every reader to be guided by Luke to Jesus, to gain new insights into Jesus, and to discover in him the one who gives meaning to our existence, heals our wounds and leads us to true life." In Jesus: The Image of Humanity, best selling author Anslem Grn writes an introduction to the Gospel of Luke that will inspire those who find it difficult to encounter the real Jesus in the writings of the New Testament. He shows the Jesus of Luke's Gospel to be the key to a spiritually fruitful life, something many biblical exegetes fail to do. He pierces through alienating and inherited impressions of the text to show that what Luke is giving us is a record of his own experience of Jesus. He sees the Gospel as an expertly composed, entertaining, and valuable piece of publicity on behalf of the Jesus movement; and its message is as life changing in the twenty-first century as it was in the first century.
Anselm Grn is a Benedictine monk who lives in Germany. He is also the Cellarer of the community. Grn is a bestselling writer in Germany but is only beginning to be known in the English speaking world.