To Know Christ Jesus

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 397 pages
• Published by: Ignatius Press December 1992
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0898704197
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0898704198
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 14.4 ounces

Product Review
This is not a book pretending to be an outright life of Christ. The veteran-publisher author-lecturer, Frank Sheed, predicates his entire commentary on the fact that all that is known of Christ was passed on to man through the Gospels. Here, however, he attempts to give a ?? of his life-devotion to the contemplation of the meaning of these sacred words for the benefit of all who will read this book. Mr. Sheed's well known ?? flourishes, so familiar to the lecture circuit the country over, can be detected throughout the book, but it is the better for them. Many who have read his Theology and Sanity, Society and Sanity, and other Frank Sheed books will look eagerly to this latest product of the one layman who has been honored with a doctorate of theology. As one would expect, Mr. Sheed points out the discrepancies and lacunae which the Gospel stories contain. But he indicates clearly that these do not minimize the messages. He leans heavily on the eminent Dominican exegete, Pere Lagrange, as his menton?? I know Christ Jesus is truly an unusual appreciation of the lessons of the life of Christ. At the same time it is distinctive. To Know Christ Jesus represents the optimum effort of a man whose life has been spent in interpreting the "good news" of the Gospel to his fellow men. The title describes the objective all men should have in ordering their own lives. To see Christ through the eyes of Frank Sheed is to get assistance from a ?? qualified to provide it. This is a book which will be read widely. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
This modern spiritual classic by Frank Sheed, the renowned author, publisher and lecturer, is brought back into print for the benefit of new generations of readers to develop a deeper, more profound knowledge of Jesus Christ. Sheed's concern with the Gospels is to come to know Christ as he actually lived among us, interacted with all the various people he encountered from his infancy to his passion and death--the God-man who was like us in all things except sin. Sheed has tried especially to see Our Lord in his effect upon others--seeing how they saw him, trying to see why they saw him so. There is much about Mary and Joseph in their task of bringing up a baby who was literally adorable; about John the Baptist; about Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalen; about Nicodemus; about people we meet only for a moment, like the man born blind and the owners of the drowned swine; and why the Pharisees, not only the worst of them but some of the best, would not accept Christ.

Reader Reviews
Frank Sheed's brilliance shines through in "To Know Christ Jesus". Mr. Sheed not only tells the story of Christ's life beautifully by weaving the four gospels together seamlessly, but does so in a profoundly sound theological way. Let me share with you a typical passage from the book, yet one which shows the tremendous insight that Mr. Sheed brings to his writing: "Let us look steadily at him. He was a carpenter in a town which, even in insignificant Galilee, was despised as insignificant. He was not playing at being a carpenter, as Marie Antoinette and her ladies played at being shepherdesses at Versailles. He was a carpenter; the household depended on what he made; if trade was bad his mother had to go without. The locals hired him to make and mend in wood. He would name the price and it would be a just price. They would haggle as is the way of the East, beating him down, asking doubtless if he thought they were made of money. In a better mood (having got the price down, perhaps) they might offer him a drink." "And he was omnipotent God, the second person the blessed Trinity, by whom all things were made, including the wood of his carpentry, and the drink, and the customer who was arguing with him about the price: including his own human body and human soul -- that human soul which had to sustain the wonder of his divine self and not be blinded by it." One should be able to see from this small passage, not only the joy with which Mr. Sheed writes about Christ, but also the love and the reverence he feels for Him. It may be subtle in the passage I quoted, but Mr. Sheed also deftly injects a little humor to round this book out and make it a truly brilliant work.