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The Difficult Words of Jesus
- Author
- Amy-Jill Levine
- Narrator
- Nan McNamara
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Publish Date
- 3 August 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.
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Details
- Author
- Amy-Jill Levine
- Narrator
- Nan McNamara
- Duration
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9781545919088
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Genre
- Christian life and practice, Religious instruction, Christian life and practice, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments
Synopsis
Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of human nature; he offered them beatitudes for comfort and encouragement. But sometimes Jesus spoke words that followers then and now have found difficult. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), to act as if they were slaves (Matthew 20:27), and to sell their belongings and give to the poor (Luke 18:22). He restricts his mission (Matthew 10:6); he speaks of damnation (Matthew 8:12); he calls Jews the devil's children (John 8:44).In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.
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