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Article: Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. (Books: dying for God's sins).
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 2, 2002
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Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. By Jack Miles. Knopf, 352 pp., $26.00.
I ADMIRE MUCH about Jack Miles's new book, a sequel to his 1995 God: A Biography, which not only became a New York Times best seller but also won a Pulitzer Prize. Miles's exposition is often brilliant and insightful. His writing is elegant and disciplined, and his argument is fresh and provocative. Whether it is also fanciful and problematic, readers will have to decide.
In his first book, Miles provided a literary reading (in contrast to historical and theological readings) of the Hebrew Bible by focusing on God "as the central character in a work of literature." Here he ...