· WHAT JESUS MEANT. By Garry Wills. pp. Viking. $ GENTLE and fierce, kind and rude, human and divine, Jesus of Nazareth is at once the most confounding and consequential figure in Western Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Citing many scriptural quotes from Christ himself, Wills shows us the more radical side of Jesus the Jesus that confounded the Pharisees, broke orthodox religious laws, overturned the money changers' tables, ministered to the "unclean" and died a horrible death on the cross, rejected and despised, even while he prayed for those who killed him/5(). Christianity has been twisted and warped to such an extent that not even Jesus would recognize it now. This is Wills's thesis in his stimulating, fresh look into the life and message of Jesus o.
Garry Wills's recent New York Times bestselling books What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant were tour-de-force interpretations of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Now Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Garry Wills, an emeritus professor of history and expert in ancient and New Testament Greek, has for the past decade been writing handbooks, so to say, of haute vulgarisation, brief commentaries and interpretations for the layman, such as WHAT PAUL MEANT, WHAT JESUS MEANT, WHY I AM A. Garry Wills goes to the source - the market place Greek spoken by Jesus and His contemporaries and shows us what Jesus really meant. Not to found a church with any structure; not to create another religion with all its complexity and rules; but to free all people by showing them God's love and.
But in this New York Times-bestselling masterpiece, Garry Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program. He was far more radical than that. He was far more radical than that. In a fresh reading of the gospels, Wills explores the meaning of the "reign of heaven" Jesus not only promised for the future but brought with him into this life. Christianity has been twisted and warped to such an extent that not even Jesus would recognize it now. This is Wills's thesis in his stimulating, fresh look into the life and message of Jesus o. Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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