With timeless insight, Frederick Buechner introduces readers to the Jesus of the Gospels. The old, old story begins to ring new as Buechner revisits the ancient stories and shows us different aspects of the faces of Jesus.
Award-winning author Frederick Buechner retells the stories of the Gospels and reminds us that to see Jesus afresh is to be changed and challenged and to be put back on our feet. The Faces of Jesus is a distinctive and warm-hearted look at this person, this God, this teacher, this wanderer, this man of suffering.
Award-winning author Frederick Buechner retells the stories of the Gospels and reminds us that to see Jesus afresh is to be changed and challenged and to be put back on our feet. The Faces of Jesus is a distinctive and warm-hearted look at this person, this God, this teacher, this wanderer, this man of suffering.
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Jesus is the word made flesh, the truth narrated in bone and bowel, space and time." Rev. Buechner is the teller of the story of Jesus, and his consummate skill is less important than the humility that is the most edifying feature of these sermons His craftsmanship never draws attention to itself but is given over in praise and service to "Jesus' story, which is a love story." "The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story" offers brief, evocative meditations on the Annunciation and on the nativity, ministry, Last Supper, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Reading this book is akin to praying with religious art, with Rev. Buechner as a reverent guide to the artist's intent. His text suggests the tone rather than details of the Gospel. Here he writes about the "turbulent activity" and relentless flow" of Jesus' ministry. "With the jerky haste of an old newsreel, Jesus flickers across the light-struck Galilean landscape. Parables and beatitudes fill the air about him like scratches on an old film -- Blessed are the meek, the poor, the pure in heart --and people throng about him to be healed. A woman stretches out her hand to touch the hem of his garment as he goes hurrying by. At Cana he stops long enough to go to a wedding, and when his mother tells him the wine has given out, his answer is impatient and time-haunted. 'My hour has not yet come,' he says, but he takes time to do her bidding anyway and make wine out of the six great jars of water." Rev. Buechner's meditation on the Last Supper and Crucifixion is suffused by empathy for this Messiah, "the Jew retching out his life from the cross of his pain," the "fierce and fiercely gentle man who spills himself out, his very flesh and blood." In reverent prose, Rev. Buechner allows us to glimpse the "face of Jesus as our face." It is a lovely, perhaps unexpected, gift from a fine writer and obedient disciple.
Rachelle Linner The Catholic Review Online October 23, 2006
Rachelle Linner The Catholic Review Online October 23, 2006
"This slim volume is yet another of Mr. Buechner's poetic musings; this time he puts a human face on the gospel events, one that mirrors our own. The prolific Mr. Buechner is a recipient of multiple national book awards. Clearly he has a way with words. He makes familiar New Testament encounters refreshingly vivid, drawing the reader in so closely that we must either gaze in awe or avoid meeting Jesus' eyes altogether." Dallas New Religion September 6, 2005 <hr>
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"[U]nless we take pains we hardly see it at all. Take pains. See it for what it is and, to see it whole, see it too for what it is just possible that it will become: the face of Jesus as the face of our own secret and innermost destiny: The face of Jesus as our face." -Frederick Buechner
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If occasionally you find that the stories of Jesus found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have become so familiar they fall flat, this book will help you experience the wonder of reading them again as if for the first time.The faces of Jesus, his "ways of being and being seen" are illuminated in six chapters: Annunciation, Nativity, Ministry, Last Supper, Crucifixon, and Resurrection. The focus of the faces of Jesus is that whatever else he may have been, he was a man once and had a "man's face, a human face."
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The Faces of Jesus is a beautiful art book and an inspirational Christian text written by one of the world's great theologians and authors. Buechner's text highlights the life of Jesus and raises goosebumps as the story comes alive in a new and beautiful way. Surrounded by some of the great artwork of the world and some not so readily known images it captures the face of this mysterious man and brings a sense of the spirit here and now. It will take your breath away and open you to the breath of God anew.
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Frederick Beuchner seldom dissapoints. This is true of this delightfully poetic view of Jesus' life. Based on some of the more famous pictures of Jesus by various artists, the paper back edition, while handy to have and easily portable lacks the charm of the larger hard cover original edition which contains reproductions of the art work. Typical of Buechner's immently readable style, this book delights the senses while deepening the faith.
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