The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
Jon Meacham
Feb 2020 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Jon Meacham
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, combining rich historical and theological insights to reflect on the true heart of the Christian story.
For Jon Meacham, as for believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential truths about Christianity. A former vestryman of Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of faith and history in this meditation on the seven phrases Jesus spoke from the cross.
Beginning with “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” and ending with “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,” Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus’s message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, rather than vengeance, extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes an essay on the origins of Christianity and how Jesus’s final words created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the very order of the world.
Writing in a tone more intimate than any of his previous works, Jon Meacham returns us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son of God, worshiped by billions.
For Jon Meacham, as for believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential truths about Christianity. A former vestryman of Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of faith and history in this meditation on the seven phrases Jesus spoke from the cross.
Beginning with “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” and ending with “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,” Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus’s message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, rather than vengeance, extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes an essay on the origins of Christianity and how Jesus’s final words created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the very order of the world.
Writing in a tone more intimate than any of his previous works, Jon Meacham returns us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son of God, worshiped by billions.
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Mary Blessing
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Excellent! ! As an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church I am deeply grateful for Jon Meacham's courage to write as a member of the 'Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement' as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has named us. From the Anglican tradition, which began during the Protestant Reformatio, we are the Christians who specifically said we will be a 'both/and', inclusive expression of Jesus' life and teachings. We are grounded in Scripture, we value the historic, Traditional Church, and we look to Reason, science and God's omnipotence continually informing us of new truths as they unfold in the Universe. Meacham uses theologians such as 4th c. Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria and 17th c, French Mathematician Blaise Pascal to bring meaning to Jesus Christ's sacrifice upon the Cross. Meacham has captured our tradition well and made it accessible to a 21st C. world hungry to know how to embrace world -wide perspectives on seeking God, while always remembering to love one another.
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