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Jesus
- The Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Come to know Jesus as you have never known him before: as a revolutionary prophet with an exciting new moral vision.
Top biblical scholar Marcus J. Borg, after a lifetime of work and study, presents a historically accurate Jesus unlike any we have previously seen. This Christ is a charismatic sage and healer who courageously and surprisingly confronts the societal crises of his day, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change. This fresh and innovative vision of Jesus will inspire and guide those who have moved beyond traditional church teaching about the Son of God and who are willing to see our savior in a whole new light.
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- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, best-selling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers 12 forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future. Spong contends that there is mounting pressure among Christians for a radically new kind of Christianity - a faith deeply connected to the human experience instead of outdated dogma.
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- By Brian Diffley on 03-27-21
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The Misunderstood Jew
- The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
- By: Amy Jill Levine
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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In The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth - telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.
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Courageous
- By Tad Davis on 07-27-17
By: Amy Jill Levine
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Reading Judas
- The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
- By: Elaine Pagels, Karen L. King
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre, Robertson Dean
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Two celebrated scholars illustrate how the newly discovered Gospel of Judas provides a window into understanding how Jesus' followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. Presented with the elegance, insight, and accessibility that has made Pagels and King the leading voices in this field, this is a book for academics and popular audiences alike.
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Judas Iscariot: Betrayer or Saint?
- By Diane on 08-21-12
By: Elaine Pagels, and others
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How Jesus Became God
- The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
- By: Bart D. Ehrman
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty Creator of all things. Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus's followers had visions of him after his death - alive again - did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God.
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Wishing for a bit more meat on the bones
- By Darwin8u on 04-09-14
By: Bart D. Ehrman
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills
- The World Before and After Jesus
- By: Thomas Cahill
- Narrated by: Brian F. O'Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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In his subtle and engaging investigation into the life and times of Jesus, Thomas Cahill shows us Jesus from his birth to his execution through the eyes of those who knew him and in the context of his time—a time when the Jews were struggling to maintain their beliefs under overlords who imposed their worldview on their subjects. Here is Jesus the loving friend, itinerate preacher, and quiet revolutionary, whose words and actions inspired his followers to journey throughout the Roman world and speak the truth he instilled.
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Desire Delivers
- By David on 04-18-03
By: Thomas Cahill
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Understanding the Koran
- A Quick Christian Guide to the Muslim Holy Book
- By: Mateen Elass
- Narrated by: Don Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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A quick non-technical introduction to the Koran designed to help Christians understand a hidden book revered by 1.3 billion Muslims, covering the background on its writing, a summary of its contents, a perspective on how it’s used and viewed by Muslims, a comparison of differences and similarities to the Bible, and some suggestions on how it should and should not be used in conversations with Muslims.
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Favors Christianity
- By Dianne on 12-18-15
By: Mateen Elass
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The Day the Revolution Began
- Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
- By: N. T. Wright
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Day the Revolution Began, N. T. Wright once again challenges commonly held Christian beliefs, as he did in Surprised by Hope. Demonstrating the rigorous intellect and breathtaking knowledge that have long defined his work, Wright argues that Jesus' death on the cross was not only to absolve us of our sins, it was actually the beginning of a revolution commissioning the Christian faithful to a new vocation - a royal priesthood responsible for restoring and reconciling all of God's creation.
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Standard Wright, both the strengths and weaknesses
- By Adam Shields on 12-12-16
By: N. T. Wright
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Reasons to Believe
- How to Understand, Defend, and Explain the Catholic Faith
- By: Scott Hahn
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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In Reasons to Believe, Scott Hahn, a convert to Catholicism, explains the "how and why" of the Catholic faith - drawing from Scripture, his own struggles, and those of other converts, as well as from everyday life and even natural science. Hahn shows that reason and revelation, as well as nature and the supernatural, are not opposed to one another; rather, they offer complementary evidence that God exists. He is someone, and He has a personality, a personal style, that is discernable and knowable.
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A Catholic for convition and tradition
- By benigno on 05-29-12
By: Scott Hahn
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When Christians Were Jews
- The First Generation
- By: Paula Fredriksen
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers the question of how Jewish missionaries ended up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life.
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nothing to see here, nothing to read here
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-18
By: Paula Fredriksen
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The Jesus Dynasty
- A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity
- By: James D. Tabor
- Narrated by: James D. Tabor
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Based on a careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, The Jesus Dynasty offers a bold new interpretation of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The story is surprising, controversial, and exciting as only a long-lost history can be when it is at last recovered.
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Provocative book
- By Dan on 08-27-06
By: James D. Tabor
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A New Kind of Christianity
- Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
- By: Brian D. McLaren
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask whether the church is in sync with their deepest beliefs and commitments. These believers range from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics, and the person who best represents them is author and pastor Brian McLaren. In this much anticipated book, McLaren examines ten questions facing today's church - questions about how to articulate the faith itself, the nature of its authority, who God is....
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Clear, Careful, Considerate Confrontation
- By Celia on 09-10-12
By: Brian D. McLaren
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- Mike M
- 05-09-23
Great book about Jesus
This book was a huge help to me in my journey to find, to understand Jesus. Read this book!
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- julioj725
- 04-13-19
Best book on Jesus
this is a great introduction to anyone who is seeking an honest and non-doctrinal book on Jesus of Nazareth
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- Curt Curtis
- 02-28-16
Very important book for today
Wonderful book, it will help you to understand the actions of progressive and conservative forms of Christianity today.
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- Johannes
- 11-24-16
Enlightening and to the point!
This book is for all people who approach Jesus and Christianity with an open hart and mind.
Who was Jesus and why does he matter for Christians an none Christians alike is explained brilliantly.
It provides compelling arguments for being a follower of Christ in this world.
This world needs more people who take the message of Jesus (as outlined in this book) serious.
Prepare to be challenged and changed!
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- C-FREE
- 07-20-16
great for esoteric students
I am an esoteric Christian and I spend a lot of my time reading books related to that realm. This book is written by a mainstream Jesus scholar, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to check in with the mainstream, in order to make sure I hadn't gone off the deep end. What I found in this book was more than I could have hoped for. The first few chapters were a little slow for me because they are dedicated to gradually introducing the radical ideas of the later chapters. The author is very gentle with those who may be reading from a fundamentalist POV. However, by the end we have firmly established that Jesus was mystic and revolutionary, the two critical aspects of the Real Jesus that have only been known to those in more esoteric traditions. Read masterfully.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-12-16
Missing Marcus
I love the "voice" of Marcus Borg found in his books, and he clearly trusted this narrator. His gentle yet determined and scholarly picture of Jesus, before and after Easter, solidifies and clarifies my own Christianity. I am grateful to have his books. I miss his kind voice.
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- Allen A. Watson
- 06-08-18
Some annoying mispronunciation
Narrator has odd way of saying “prayer,” “abba,” and “contemplative.” Content is revelatory, relevant, and exciting. Highly recommended.
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- Jeffrey D
- 07-03-21
A good example of "progressive" Christianity
The problem for the self-styled progressive Christian is to keep the core of Christianity while throwing out all the hard-to-believe stuff, like the virgin birth, Bethlehem, the miracles, and the resurrection. Borg understands these parts of the Christian legend as stories, but really good stories. So good that they are true, and real, even though not factual.
Borg can throw out the hard-to-believe stuff and remain a Christian through a sleight-of-hand. While Jesus's life is a web of metaphors, they are true, in that there is one clear truth that shines through: God was central to Jesus's life. And Borg knows that God exists, for a fact. He even knows God's nature (compassion) and his passion (justice). This God is the one that we first meet in the Hebrew Bible. As so often in the biographies of people like Borg, he was fortunate enough to have been born into a family (strict Lutherans in North Dakota) that just happened to believe in the one true God.
The parables are metaphors, for Borg, but there is again one fact that shines through the metaphors: generally speaking, what Jesus is doing with his parables is decrying the "domination system," a phrase Borg apparently picked up from Walter Wink, perhaps through John Dominic Crossan. The domination system was in place in Jesus's time (the Roman Empire in particular), and it remains in place today. The dominators are the bad guys. So progressive Christians are able to be nice, loving, compassionate people while getting their aggressions out by applying them to evil, in the fine old Christian apocalyptic tradition of the final battle of good vs. evil..
So Borg can have his cake and eat it too. Jesus, he admits, is a legendary character. But even if Jesus is legendary, he points to a God who is factual and real (and Christian). Borg can treat claims of factuality skeptically (excessive concern for the factual is an error of the Enlightenment), but he can still, as is all too usual in political attitudes, find the true political attitude in the factuality of the domination system, then and now. That political fact is not just an Enlightenment error -- it is an Enlightenment fact.
We might, however, be wise to treat these "facts" of Borg's with a certain critical attitude. Borg does not really know what God's nature and passion are. And the God he chooses -- although he makes the usual Christian claim that all enduring religions are pretty much the same (i.e., Judeo-Christian) -- is one that arose in a tiny corner of a big world, and made rather unlikely claims for the religious importance of that tiny corner of the world. And finding Jesus's (and God's) passion in fighting the domination system takes some very tortuous exegesis. Parable after parable is reinterpreted as indicating Jesus's primary enemy -- the domination system.
Thus, all told, we are left with a Jesus that, after discarding the embarrassing bits, is revealed to be very much like a panentheist, left-wing professor of religious studies at Oregon State University; or, to pick a type less exactly like the real Marcus Borg, a political activist in Portland with a Buddhist meditation practice on the side.
Is this really the best Borg can do in his battle with his present bad guys (the right-wing evangelicals who support the domination system)? He calls his proposals part of an "emerging paradigm" in Christianity. Can Christianity work without the magic? This writer, at least, has his grave doubts. Take the biblical story in which Jesus saves the disciples who are being blown out to sea on a boat. He walks on water to the boat. Peter gets out, loses his confidence, and begins to sink. Jesus steadies him. How does this story work if we agree with Borg that no one can walk on water, not even Jesus? Doesn't it become a cartoon, in which Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, and keeps happily running on air until he looks down and then falls, creating a coyote-shaped hole in the ground? That is, without the supernatural foundation of the birth, the miracles, and the resurrection, it becomes an absurdity and finally a joke.
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