Mary Gordon - What He Said: The Words of Jesus Christ http://whathesaid.com Making the words of Jesus Christ easy to read and explore Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Another Take http://whathesaid.com/2009/11/13/another-take/ http://whathesaid.com/2009/11/13/another-take/#respond Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:13:31 +0000 https://whathesaid.com/?p=184 Seems as if we were not the only ones crafting a book the last couple of years centered around the Four Gospels. I recently came across Mary Gordon’s Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels. Her take is fascinating: “In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as […]

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Seems as if we were not the only ones crafting a book the last couple of years centered around the Four Gospels. I recently came across Mary Gordon’s Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels. Her take is fascinating:

“In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had ‘invented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes,’ she determined to read the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character.”

You can read Newsweek’s review of the book here.

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