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Indlæser... A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth (udgave 2000)af John Dominic Crossan
Work InformationA Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth af John Dominic Crossan
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Crossan had his fifteen minutes of fame in the 1980s when he became part of the Jesus Seminar. He had earlier been a priest and biblical scholar who left the priesthood when he realized he had no vocation. Good for him. Unfortunately, joining the Jesus Seminar made him into an academic and public laughingstock. This book is his apologetic response for the consequent media misreading and his own errors in clarity. Crossan says that the Seminar was meant to be an academic biblical discussion and not a criticism of Roman Catholic doctrine. In any case, he says that the reason he undertook the project was because he was Irish (belittled by the British) and always had a sense of adventure (common desire to leave Ireland). Crossan emphasizes the parables of Jesus as carrying the intended meaning of Jesus and the early church. This meaning was practical and not highly theological. Crossan in this book still considered himself a practicing (while privately dissenting) Roman Catholic. Crossan is a former priest (laicized, he claims) who married twice afterwards. May be the first one I've heard to do that. A Long Way From Tipperary is not interesting enough to spend time reading. He's authored more than twenty other books. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
I have spent thirty years reconstructing the historical Jesus. I have done so self-consciously and self-critically and have tried to do the same on reconstructing myself. But what justifies this memoir is how my own personal experience, from Ireland to America, from priest to professor, from monastery to university, and ... from celibacy to marriage, may have influenced that reconstruction. Where has it helped me see what others have not, and where has it made invisible to me what others find obvious? -from A Long Way from Tipperary From his upbringing in Ireland to front-page coverage in the New York Times and mention in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, John Dominic Crossan-who has courageously pioneered the contemporary quest for the historical Jesus-has dared to go his own way. In this candid and engaging memoir, the world's foremost Jesus scholar reveals what he has discovered over a lifetime of open-eyed, fearless exploration of God, Jesus, Christianity, and himself. Crossan shares his provocative thinking on such issues as how one can be a Christian without going to church; whether God is vengeful, or just, or both; and why Jesus is more like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. than like the Pope or Jerry Falwell. Raised in the traditional Irish Catholic Church, Crossan inherited a faith that was "accepted fully and internalized completely but undiscussed, uninvestigated, and uncriticized." A dauntless spirit whose imagination was ignited not by piety but by the lure and challenge of adventure, he became a monk to travel and explore the world, unaware that his most thrilling quests would be scholarly and spiritual. "God had going the best adventure around," Crossan confesses. Because he could never subject his theological convictions and historical findings to the restrictions of the Church, Crossan chose to leave the monastery and priesthood. Speaking of this time in his life, Crossan writes, "Not even a vow of obedience could make me sing a song I did not hear." But he never abandoned the Roman Catholic community or tradition and never lost his faith. He has devoted his life and career to a reexamination of what he calls "necessary open-heart surgery on Christianity itself." No library descriptions found. |
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