Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God

This is the "sequel," if you will, to the book "God: A Biography." I actually read this one first, and it really doesn't matter. He briefly lays out his hypotheses from the first book at the beginning of this one. This is again a literary reading of the Bible. It just deals with the New Testament. O......more

Jack Miles likes big celebrities. Six years ago, he wrote a biography of God. His analysis of the Great Protagonist in the Hebrew Bible won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, he's back. And this time, it's personal. "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God" reminds us that the story of Christianity reaches its clima......more

This book was a more complex study than I desired. This is not light reading. It is possible to read this as a critique of how the historical Christ made a paradigm shift from the authoritarian and vengeful god of the Old Testament to the loving, merciful god of the New Testament, but this would be......more

I will begin this review by stating that Jack Miles, undoubtedly, is a learned man. It is clear that his knowledge of the biblical text, as well as secular history's interactions with it, are extremely commendable. The essays that he attaches as appendices to these books, which outline precisely his......more

I liked this book just as much as the Pulitzer winner that preceded it. And like its predecessor, this work approaches the Bible from a purely literary perspective. This approach doesn’t preclude its own criticism, but it should negate some of the harsher critics who still insist on arguing from a h......more