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The miracles of Jesus provide an endless source of debate both within and outside the churches. In this book to accompany the major BBC One television series, Michael Symmons Roberts tells the story of the miracles and examines their meaning. Each chapter is based around a famous miracle or category of famous miracles and seeks to: set the 1st century Galilean context - unpack the meaning of each miracle to Jesus and to his followers. The chapters reflect Jesus' journey of self-discovery - his moments of revelation, his doubts, his agonies. The book asks: Who was he? A healer? A prophet? The long-awaited messiah? The Son of God?
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Michael Symmons Roberts is an award-winning writer of books, operas, radio and TV scripts. He was trained in Theology and Philosophy at Oxford University and has spent 13 years as BBC documentary maker for radio and TV, specialising in religious programmes. His poetry collection 'Corpus' won the 2005 Whitbread Poetry Prize.
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I thought this was the DVD for the GCSE course but it was not and was only a "brochure", check you are buying what you expect.
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This was a fascinating book. The thesis of the book is that the miracles performed by Jesus were more than just miracles, they were also signs to those who lived at the time that he was actually the Messiah. The author takes each major miracle performed by Christ and ties it to a previous miracle by an earlier prophet, etc. (I.e., Christ's bringing the widow's son back to life is an echo of a very similar miracle performed by Elijah. His miracle of feeding the 5,000 loaves and fishes equates to Moses feeding the Israelites manna and quail. His miracle of walking on the Sea of Galilee equates to Joshua stopping the Jordan when the Israelites needed to cross it to get to their promised land. You get the picture.)
Thus, each of Christ's miracles connected those who witnessed it with a piece of their religious history and told them who Christ was. The book is easy to read; the maps and photos from the BBC documentary which accompany the text are great; and the text is extremely interesting. I recommend it. |
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