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Title: A Long Way from Tipperary : What a Former Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0060699744 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great book!
Comment: I highly recommend this enjoyable memoir to everyone who believes life has as much to teach us about faith as religion. Crossan went further in his pursuit of God and adventure than most of us will ever go (from an Irish monastery to a vivid and scientifically acurate understanding of the historical Jesus). This is the story of those adventures and it's a delight to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Searching For Clues
Comment: John Dominic Crossan has led an adventurous life which included twenty years spent as a Roman Catholic monk and thirty years reconstructing the historical Jesus.
The challenge for me in reading this book is searching for clues as to what factors in his background have influenced his studies and conclusions. His descriptions of his parents, boyhood teachers and youthful life in an Ireland recently freed from its colonial past are fairly interesting but too superficial. More intriguing are those parts of the book which deal with his profound anger directed at the church hierarchy and the chapter which describes the evolution of his early research on the sayings and parables of Jesus into a wider quest focusing on the life of Jesus.
Rating: 4
Summary: Leaving the priesthood... without leaving the religion
Comment: It's too easy to write off Crossan as another "priest who left", but his candid biography makes that task even more difficult, demonstrating that he still and always takes his religion seriously even when his role in it is uncertain.
Crossan's memoir answers almost all the questions I'd have asked him if I could, and more. As another reviewer commented, the passages about the death of his first wife show sweetly (but not sickeningly!), that in leaving the priesthood, Crossan began the proceess of becoming more fully human.
For Crossan, reconstructing himself was part of the task of reconstructing Jesus, for it is in Jesus' full humanity that he finds the deepest roots of his faith. As a Jew, I can't connect with that belief on a theological level, but as a person of faith, I found Crossan's search, both for himself and for the Jesus he was never introduced to in seminary, to be moving in the most profound way.
Though his story might have been more sensationalistic if he'd "lost his faith" and gone on to condemn Christianity, Crossan has taken the nobler path and revitalized Christian thought in the process.
This memoir is an excellent springboard to his other, more theological works, creating a context for his beliefs and presenting a portrait of the kind of sympathetic teacher every religion needs.
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Title: Jesus : A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0060616628 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Historical Jesus : The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0060616296 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts by John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. Reed ISBN: 0060616334 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Dark Interval : Towards a Theology of Story by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0944344062 Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Birth of Christianity : Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0060616601 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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