Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

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Yale University Press, 1 ene 1999 - 270 páginas
"A rich and expansive description of Jesus' impact on the general history of culture. . . . Believers and skeptics alike will find it a sweeping visual and conceptual panorama."--John Koenig, front page, New York Times Book Review

Called "a book of uncommon brilliance" by Commonweal, Jesus Through the Centuries is an original and compelling study of the impact of Jesus on cultural, political, social, and economic history. Noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan reveals how the image of Jesus created by each successive epoch--from rabbi in the first century to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--is a key to understanding the temper and values of that age.

"An enlightening and often dramatic story . . . as stimulating as it is informative."--John Gross, New York Times

"A gracious little masterpiece."--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

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not a life of Jesus
1
Judaism the Jewishness of the New Testament in relation
9
The Turning Point of History
21
The Light of the Gentiles
34
The King of Kings
46
The Cosmic Christ
57
The Son of
71
The True Image
83
The Universal
145
The Mirror of the Eternal
157
The Prince of Peace
168
The Teacher of Common Sense
182
The Poet of the Spirit
194
The Liberator
206
The Man Who Belongs to the World
220
Notes
235

Christ Crucified
95
The Monk Who Rules the World
109
The Bridegroom of the Soul
122
The Divine and Human Model
133

Términos y frases comunes

Sobre el autor (1999)

Jaroslav Pelikan was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He was the author of more than thirty books, including The Christian Tradition, widely acknowledged as the foremost history of its kind.

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