Jack miles god
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God: A Biography
April ; Knopf; pages.
Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography,
Book Description
What sort of a "person" is God? What is his "life story"?
Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and ambiguities of a Hamlet?
This is the task that Jack Miles--a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and nära Eastern languages--accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography.
Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival.
Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his ledare creation: the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent.
Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike an
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God: A Biography: Q&A
Below are Q&As about God: A Biography submitted by readers.
Question:
Thank you for allowing me to read this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was well written and uppenbart well researched. The question inom would have for Jack Miles:
The premise of your book seems to be that God was vengeful and overreacted to the sin of Adam and Eve, and though He continued to be a warrior God, somewhere in history He changed His mind or personality and became "kinder and gentler". Was it ever a consideration that His gift of "free will" was His true mistake, with free will and the presence of Satan, making it almost impossible for human beings to be faithful, requiring God to find another way to save His creation?
Answer:
In the Genesis story of the creation of the human species, no reference is made to free will as such. However, at first, God places no restrictions whatsoever on the activity of the first human couple, and later he does,
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Jack Miles
Jack Miles won a Pulitzer Prize in for God: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, ), a work that he began during his life-changing Guggenheim fellowship year, – In fall of , he published a companion work, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, which was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and may have led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for the quinquennium – During that period, Miles wrote a prospectus for and recruited six eminent scholars to collaborate on what has become The Norton Anthology of World Religions, an anthology of primary texts in the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from their origins to the present. At more than 4, pages in two hardcover volumes, boxed, this work is forthcoming in September
Miles was born in into a lower middle-class Roman Catholic family in Chicago, attended parochial schools, and after graduation from a Jesuit high school, joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in As a J