ISBN 978-0-8028-6340-9 6" x 9" paperback 418 pages
About the book
This book is intended for a broad spectrum of educated readers. It provides both the religiously committed and the religiously curious with an understanding of Jesus based on the validity of academic scholarship and, at the same time, on the authenticity of interpretation informed by faith. To achieve this balanced tension, the book focuses first on the key relationships of the human being named Jesus and how he viewed them, and then on the extravagant metaphors of Jesus’ transcendent significance employed by those who first came to believe in him. It invites the reader not to look at Jesus as historical object, but to look with Jesus at the realities of God and neighbor, as he perceived them. And it challenges the reader not to ask how this human being can be divine, but to ask with those who knew him, “Who is this Jesus and what is his transcendent significance for life and faith today?”
Following the philosopher Sören Kierkegaard’s definition of a “self,” the author explores the person of Jesus as a “bundle of relationships” each of which reveals a critical aspect of Jesus’ revolutionary view of reality. Then, by placing the New Testament metaphors used to describe the transcendent significance of Jesus and his view of reality in cultural, human and spiritual context, the writer beckons the reader to confront anew the implications of seeing Jesus through the eyes of faith.
The question that inspired this work is: “Would it make a difference for individuals who choose to reflect thoughtfully and seriously about their lives if they viewed reality through the eyes of Jesus and embraced that reality as their ultimate reality?” In exploring the answer, Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus: His Revolutionary View of Reality and His Transcendent Significance for Faith, clarifies for a new generation what it means to live life as it is, amidst all difficulties and among all neighbors, in the reality that God is for us, God is with us, and God will never forsake us.
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