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The main thrust of this book is an elaboration on the love and joy contained in the message of Christ as proclaimed to us in the Gospels, a message which the author characterizes as extremely simple: "An old era is done. God is intervening to begin a new age of incredible generosity...great is the payoff..." And it has been the very simplicity of Jesus' message that has been ignored by theologians and scholars through the ages.
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The Jesus myth
The main thrust of this book is an elaboration on the love and joy contained in the message of Christ as proclaimed to us in the Gospels, a message which the author characterizes as extremely simple: "An old era is done. God is intervening to begin a new age of incredible generosity...great is the payoff..." And it has been the very simplicity of Jesus' message that has been ignored by theologians and scholars through the ages.
Mr Blue
J. Blue is a young man who decides to take Christianity seriously, not as a chore but as a challenge. He spends his inherited wealth almost as soon as he gets it. He lives in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. He embraces the poor as his best friends and wisest companions, distrusts the promises of technology (except for the movies), and is fascinated by anything involving the wide expanse of God’s universe. He is the ultimate free spirit, it seems; but what is the “source and purpose” his freedom? This novel about a contemporary St. Francis figure has delighted and inspired countless readers since it was first published in 1928.