Waterstones The Gospel in Brief
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The four Gospels that begin the Bible's New Testament tell the life of Jesus. But each Gospel relates a slightly different version of events. Some stories appear only in one Gospel, while certain other stories are different in each. What Leo Tolstoy sought to do in The Gospel In Brief was to apply his tremendous skills as a writer to tell the life of Jesus in one seamless narrative, thus integrating the four Gospels. The result is a work that reads like a novel, complete with twelve chapters. The project was very important to Tolstoy. With The Gospel In Brief, he sought to democratize access to the Gospel, making the life of Jesus accessible to everyone. (He particularly had in mind the Russian peasantry.) Tolstoy based his translation on his study of the original Greek versions of the Bible. Unfortunately the Russian Orthodox Church viewed the book as sacrilegious. How dare he re-write the sacred texts? The Church worked to suppress The Gospel In Brief, and in 1901, it permanently excommunicated Tolstoy, Russia's greatest novelist. Waterstones The Gospel in Brief - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780061993459
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ISBN: 9780061993459
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Author: Simon Kwong
Rating: 5
Review: An amazing work that reconciles the teaching's of Jesus with modern faith. Rather than focus on all the 'procedures' set down by the subsequent church, this goes back to the core teachings and set's down the beautiful message that Christianity had to offer before it was taken into the 'Church', which had so little to do with it. As an example, for those who know about the miracle of the loaves and fishes, where Jesus miraculously makes more - Tolstoy explains it perfectly. It wasn't a miracle. It's a parable. It means that if we all share and share alike, we'll find we are in abundance. When one starts to give, other will too, and we'll find ourselves richer than ever before. The church's gospel just makes it seem like it was a cheap magic trick. There are many parts like this, which re-treads old ground and reinterprets what Jesus 'really' meant. I'm not christian myself, but i do believe that Jesus was indeed a very important spiritual leader and really had nothing to do in connection with the Torah, the old Testament or the Qu'ran. He was above all that, and this book will show you why.
Author: Andrew
Rating: 1
Review: The publishers do warn on the Amazon site that the book has been produced by OCR technology and may contain typos. But I have never come across a book so riddled with typos. It is unreadable in parts. There is an amusing note by the publishers at the front of the book. They say that if you would like them to produce the book without any misprints/typos they would be happy to do this for you as long as you are prepared to meet the costs.
