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Title | : | Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality |
Author | : | Ravi Zacharias |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | January 25th 2012 by FaithWords (first published January 1st 2012) |
Categories | : | Christian. Nonfiction. Religion. Christianity. Theology. Faith |
Ravi Zacharias
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The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ.In WHY JESUS?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm" by discussing the 60s-70s "Age of Aquarius," actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors.
Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible.
The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.
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ISBN: | 0892963190 (ISBN13: 9780892963195) |
Edition Language: | English |
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I am a fan of Ravi Zacharias, but the truth is I struggled to read this book. Maybe it's because I have heard his defense of Christ too many times. Or maybe it's because this book mainly addresses the Eastern (Hindu, Buddhist...) alternatives to Christianity. I also found the author's thoughts, especially in the first two chapters, a bit scattered and presumptuous. Someone who has not read Ravi Zacharias before might struggle to understand what he is talking about. He assumes a lot.Unless you've*Will reread and recommend this book for those searching for the Truth.From the handful of books that I've had read from this author, I think this is his best work yet. Bravo. Gold nuggets are everywhere in this book, so read slowly, you'll miss it if you rush the process. I agree with the author's distaste of the attacks on Christianity by the like of atheists, academia, humanists, the new spiritualist figures to advance their respective agenda, yet silence on Islam--intellectual cowardice
Why Jesus? by Ravi ZachariasThoughts after finishing chapter 8 by John Barbour - February 5, 2012The New Spirituality Ravi says, is much like the proverbial elephant being felt by four blind people; each one describes what he feels and gives his perspective, to the exclusion of the other perspectives. If you shine the light on one chapter of the New Spirituality, it can almost look like Christianity. But when you shine the light on another chapter, youre sure its Buddhism, then Hinduism, then
Most of the book was tedious. Maybe it is because trying to answer formally to New Age spirituality kind of resembles an enlightened critique of reggaeton. With the two being examples of the shallow pop culture, the comparison does not look disproportionate. For instance, a lot of time was spent talking about Oprah :-/ Someone could say that my reasoning is true but, sadly, it is pop culture what rules the thinking of the day in the Western world, so a response was needed. That's a valid but
The main focus of this book is New Age spirituality as it is mediated by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, in particular.He looks in depth at the career of Oprah, starting with a comment I find fascinating: her name comes from a misspelling of the biblical Orpah. Would it have made a difference to Oprah's success, he asks, if she'd had another name? (Of course, I think it would have: that's the whole point of God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name.) He also looks at the
I recommend this book mainly for the rare perspective it offers. The author, Ravi Zacharias, has a multinational Christian evangelism organization based out of Atlanta, GA. But it is his personal history that I found fascinating. His family is in the lineage of a high Hindu caste in India, but several generations ago saw them converted to Christianity. Zacharias himself was saved and began a devout Christian life in his teens. In addition to being deeply knowledgeable of the Hinduism traditions
"Why Jesus" tackles one of the biggest themes currently in Western spirituality. The subtitle of the book, "Rediscovering His Truth In An Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality", covers a wide ground and Ravi Zacharias does an admirable job in presenting his argument for Christianity.The book explains how the New Age Movement got its roots from Eastern pantheistic religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. The attractiveness of these religions have been craftily repackaged for Westerners who are
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