Jesus: a pilgrimage / James Martin, SJ

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York HarperOne (imprint of HarperCollins publisher) 2016, c2014Edition: 1st Harpercollins paperback edition published in 2016Description: xiii, 538 p. maps 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780062024244
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 232.9 M364j 2016 c.1, c.2
Contents:
Who is Jesus? -- Pilgrims -- Yes : "How can this be?" -- Bethlehem : "She gave birth to her firstborn son" -- Nazareth : "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years" -- Jordan : "Do you come to me?" -- Rejection : "Is not this the carpenter?" -- Galilee : "And immediately they left their nets and followed him" -- Immediately : "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?" -- Gennesaret : "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" -- Happy : "Rejoice and be glad" -- Capernaum : "They removed the roof above him" -- Parables : "He began to teach them many things in parables" -- Storms : "Teacher, do you not care?" -- Gerasa : "Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones" -- Tabgha : "And all ate and were filled" -- Bethesda : "There is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes" -- Jericho : He was trying to see who Jesus was" -- Bethany : "Take away the stone" -- Jerusalem : "Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet" -- Gethsemane : "He threw himself on the ground and prayed" -- Golgotha : "Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last" -- Risen : "Jesus said to her, 'Mariam!'" -- Emmaus : "Their eyes were kept from recognizing him" -- Tiberias : "Do you love me?" -- Amen "Questions for Personal reflections or reading groups" (p. 467-479)
Awards:
  • New York Times Bestseller and Christopher Award Winner (on the jacket)
Summary: "James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel.Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith, Father Martin recreates the world of first-century Galilee and Judea to usher the readers into Jesus's life and times and show them how Jesus speaks to us today.
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Includes a new chapter "Questions for Personal reflections or reading groups" p. 467-479

Includes notes with bibliographical references (pages 499-504), bibliography (p.511-516) and index

Who is Jesus? -- Pilgrims -- Yes : "How can this be?" -- Bethlehem : "She gave birth to her firstborn son" -- Nazareth : "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years" -- Jordan : "Do you come to me?" -- Rejection : "Is not this the carpenter?" -- Galilee : "And immediately they left their nets and followed him" -- Immediately : "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?" -- Gennesaret : "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" -- Happy : "Rejoice and be glad" -- Capernaum : "They removed the roof above him" -- Parables : "He began to teach them many things in parables" -- Storms : "Teacher, do you not care?" -- Gerasa : "Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones" -- Tabgha : "And all ate and were filled" -- Bethesda : "There is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes" -- Jericho : He was trying to see who Jesus was" -- Bethany : "Take away the stone" -- Jerusalem : "Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet" -- Gethsemane : "He threw himself on the ground and prayed" -- Golgotha : "Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last" -- Risen : "Jesus said to her, 'Mariam!'" -- Emmaus : "Their eyes were kept from recognizing him" -- Tiberias : "Do you love me?" -- Amen
"Questions for Personal reflections or reading groups" (p. 467-479)

"James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel.Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith, Father Martin recreates the world of first-century Galilee and Judea to usher the readers into Jesus's life and times and show them how Jesus speaks to us today.

New York Times Bestseller and Christopher Award Winner (on the jacket)

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