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| The Jesus I Never Knew | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 031021923X
Dewey Decimal Number: 232
UPC: 025986219239
EAN: 9780310219231
Publication Date: February 1, 2002
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 Wonderful and insightful January 2, 2009
"The Jesus I Never Knew" by Philip Yancey is a wonderful piece of work. You can see that Yancey really researched this project thoroughly. He tries to bring to light why Jesus came here, who Jesus is, and what Jesus left behind. I'm sure you'll get a lot out of this book as I did.
There is another beautiful new book on Jesus entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," by John H. Eagan. I just finished it. It's really great and deals with Jesus' teachings and His Passion. It really brought me to tears. I think the readers of "The Jesus I Never Knew" will really enjoy The Enlightenment.
 Thought Provoking read December 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good book - I'd recommend this to people looking to dig deeper into who Jesus really was and is. Good read and very thought provoking!
So, You THINK You Know About Jesus? November 11, 2008
Try this on for size, and see what surprises you might find about Christ. Yancey doesn't animate this, but uses a journalist's perspective.
Is Jesus bigger than our expectations? Did he walk around constantly with a smile on his face, or was he a man with great concerns? Jesus came to this life and faced it from a human perspective. He knew what it was like to be lonely, and he knew what it was like to be singled out as a strange person. Yet those who came in contact with Him were never the same. An encounter with Christ made you great and attracted to Him, or simply hard-hearted. And nobody talked like Jesus talked.
Who He was, why He came, and what He left behind, this was interesting the whole way! Philip Yancey puts everything on the line, and in the end, what we do with Jesus is up to us.
The Jesus I used to know November 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Philip Yancey, in THE JESUS I NEVER KNEW, lets slip with a few secrets that you never learned in Sunday School (nor even, for that matter, in THE DA VINCI CODE). Example: Have you heard the one about Jesus catching a bad case of leprosy? (p. 79). [He got it from rubbing spit-and-mud on an elderly leper, neglecting then to wash his hands before lunch. Two weeks later, when the lesions appeared, Jesus healed himself using the same trusted remedy, and Presto! he was good to go.]
Yancey's disclosures are precisely what make this book so important: Indeed, THE JESUS I NEVER KNEW has been "Critically acclaimed as the most significant book of the last ten years" (and it's not just Phil Yancey who says so, I take that quote directly from the book jacket).
Phil grew up long before the days of Christian video games, like that one in which you blast to smithereens the Jews who want to nail Jesus to the cross. As a child, Phil Yancey thought that Jesus was just some two-dimensional bearded figure in a boring flannelgraph story; after which, the teacher gave you KoolAid and sugar cookies. Later, as a teen, Phil was able to admire Jesus as a role model--a bootlegger who, when his Mom rebuked him, sassed her with such rude remarks as "Woman, what have I to with THEE?" But when Phil (as a grown man) finally came to know the true Lord of glory, he discovered "a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying"--not unlike Robert Powell in Franco Zeffirelli's film version (p. 77); in fact, I'd say almost EXACTLY like Robert Powell in Franco Zeffirelli's film version.
I actually like Jesus, quite a lot. Jesus, back when I first knew him, was (a.) the Son of Yahveh, and (b.) a very nice, well-adjusted person, which, when you consider those two facts side by side, is no small accomplishment. And I totally agree with most of what Phil has to say in this book about the real Jesus: "brilliant," yes; "creative," yes; "challenging," absolutely. I endorse all of his epithets except the last: "ultimately satisfying?" Not! Just ask Mary Magdalene, she'll back me up. "What would Jesus do?" is a fascinating question, but it's exactly what we never knew; and (trust me!) no one tried harder to find out the answer, than Mary Magdalene.
My favourite part of Phil's book is Chapter 4, "Temptation: Showdown in the Desert." Here's the story, which is one that Philip Yancey never used to know. In 28 CE, Jesus and I spent six weeks together, hiking in the wilderness and then taking a tour of Jerusalem. We talked. We reminisced. We shared our fantasies. My idea was for Jesus to have a little fun while he lived among humankind, maybe even commit a harmless sin or two, just as a life-experience; but he was not open to that suggestion (Mark 1:13). When he became hungry, I tempted him to turn stones into bread. He didn't bite. When he felt discouraged, I tempted him to throw himself off a pinnacle without getting hurt, thereby to prove his divinity. He didn't jump. Testing the limits of his courtesy, I offered him a sizable chunk of real estate - the entire planet - if he would pay me a single compliment of the sort Yahveh gets every day of the year. No thanks. And when he was horny - yes, Jesus was tempted in all points like any other man, but without sin - I'd catch his attention with some short-togaed Roman shiksa and whisper in his ear and say, "Hey, Jesus, how'd you like some o' that before returning to Heaven!" (Hebrews 4:15).
But Jesus would just his squeeze eyes shut in that cute way he has, and say, "Woe unto you, Lucifer, for trying to make me think about that!" (Matt. 4:1-11).
In retrospect, I have always felt my timing was off: for it was immediately after the baptismal service - right after he saw his Father looking down on us from Heaven - that I tempted Jesus to dabble in sin. I should have tempted him to dabble sooner, during his adolescence. Instead, Jesus' unassailable virtue struck a harmful blow to my self-esteem. It's quite unusual when I earnestly tempt someone to sin, for my suggestions to be rejected flat out. But with Jesus I hit a brick wall. I tried every rhetorical, Jesuitical, trick in the book. I could not even make Jesus WANT to dabble in sin. So I guess you could say that, between the two of us, Jesus proved himself the better man. He is certainly more obedient than I am. Well, more power to him! I've got no beef with Jesus. I just wish that I could have got to know him a little better before he scooted back up to Heaven and left us with a planet full of Christians.
--L
This is must-have reading for the Christian October 17, 2008
This is a fabulous book that I absolutely love. I have gone through it with men I was discipling in the past, and it makes a great gift to new believers or even curious inquirers to the faith. This is just a great, outside-the-box look at our Lord and I can't say enough about this book. Read it, read it again and then read it some more!
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