{"product_id":"2940170719211","title":"Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels","description":"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. What results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the mysteries surrounding one of history's most central figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordon takes us through all the fundamental stories-the Prodigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the parable of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden-pondering the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, the unresolved more ambiguities, the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers-and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness-is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive. It is this unsolvable conundrum that rests at the heart of \u003ci\u003eReading Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105107656944,"sku":"2940170719211","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170719211_p0.jpg?v=1763815582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170719211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}