God A Biography

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679743685
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God: A Biography written by Jack Miles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-03-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Skip Heitzig
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736977740
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biography of God written by Skip Heitzig and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God exist? If He does, is it possible to know Him? How you answer these two questions defines how you see the world. Author and pastor Skip Heitzig once wrestled with these questions himself. As he studied the Bible alongside science and philosophy, he grew confident that the answers to both are a resounding yes! In Biography of God, he shares the intricacies of what the Bible reveals about God’s character and His plans. As Skip helps you recognize and remove the limits you may have placed on your idea of who God is, you’ll gain a better understanding of the… omnipotence, paradoxes, and mystery central to God’s being true nature of the Holy Trinity life-changing hope that comes with believing God is who He says He is Whether you’re a longtime believer or you’re still looking for answers about faith, Biography of God will help you transform your acknowledgment to trust in the God in the Bible, and ignite your passion to know Him more intimately.

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789136
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God: A Biography written by Jack Miles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183860863X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God written by Philip C. Almond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam - God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West. Expertly placing the narrative of divine presence within the wider history of ideas, Almond suggests that the notion of a deity has been the single greatest conundrum of medieval and modern civilization. In this rich, nuanced appraisal, 'God' is shown to be more complex and fascinating than ever before.

Author : Dick Bohrer
Publisher : Multnomah Bible College
ISBN 13 : 9780964033009
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion of God written by Dick Bohrer and published by Multnomah Bible College. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Stanford Reid
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trumpeter of God written by William Stanford Reid and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knox was both a consummate politician and a formidable intellectual leader. Reid portrays every aspect of Knox's intellectual life, but he places the greatest stress on his intellectual development, which brought him to increasingly radical positions in politics and religion, and made him more and more influential in the European political scene.

Author : Regina Sara Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890772352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only God written by Regina Sara Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every spiritual tradition, there is the story of an ardent seeker who, while waiting for God, closes his door to the poor beggar who visits unexpectedly. Later, believing that the Lord has failed to appear, the seeker complains: Where were you? God responds, I came to you many times, in many forms, but always you turned me away. This is the true life story of that symbolic beggar, a hidden saint, a well-educated holy man who begged on the streets of India, Yogi Ramsuratkumar (1918 - 2001). Only God was his creed, and his approach to everyday life. His unusual innocence and radiant presence were recognised by seekers from both East and West, who knew him as the Godchild of Tiruvannamalai, the small city where he lived for forty years. The book also includes the lives and teachings of the holy beggar's three distinguished gurus, including Sri Auribindo. With self-revelatory honesty and an enjoyable mix of storytelling, interviews, and fact-finding, this eminently readable biography is an affecting account of an extraordinary life.

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517195116
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God written by Jack Miles and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Steven R. Mosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, a Biography written by Steven R. Mosley and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789101
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ written by Jack Miles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen people to an impending holocaust at the hands of their Roman conquerors. God, in the person of Jesus, chooses to die with them, in what is effectively an act of divine suicide. On the basis of this shocking argument, Miles compels us to reassess Christ’s entire life and teaching: His proclivity for the powerless and disgraced. His refusal to discriminate between friends and enemies. His transformation of defeat into a victory that redeems not just Israel but the entire world. Combining a close reading of the Gospels with a range of reference that includes Donne, Nietzche, and Elie Wiesel, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God is a work of magnificent eloquence and imagination.