Jesus of Nazareth: Meditations on His Humanity

By: Joseph Comblin

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis: "'In this book,'" says Comblin, 'we intend to meditate on the human--simply human--life of Jesus Christ. We want to examine again this Jesus of Nazareth just as the disciples knew him and understood him--or did not understand him--when they walked with him in the rough valleys of Galilee, roaming the villages of Israel, when they did not yet know him as Lord and Son of God. We want to see this Jesus just as he appeared when he had not yet manifested his personal bond with God: when, to the eyes of the disciples, he was still only a man.' And so with Comblin as our guide we follow Jesus the man. We are perhaps disconcerted to find that God stays very hidden in the life of the Jesus presented in the Gospels. Nor was Jesus a particularly religious' person. These are meditations on the life of Jesus of Nazareth, but they are based on the facts presented in Scripture; they are not flights of pious fancy. It is urgent for us to get to know Jesus the man. Might it not be,' asks Comblin, that if we do not make this long journey of understanding the humanity of Jesus we will forfeit the discovery of his true divinity and discover in its place an idol of our own making?'"