Peter J. Gomes
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object of its attention rather than heeding his message? Esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes believes that excessive focus on the Bible and doctrines about Jesus have led the Christian church astray. "What did Jesus preach?" asks Gomes. To recover the transformative power of the gospel-"the good news"-Gomes says we must go beyond the...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"The Bible and the social and moral consequences that derive from its interpretation are all too important to be left in the hands of the pious or the experts, and too significant to be ignored and trivialized by the uninformed and indifferent.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Addresses key issues in the modern church and explores the dangers of focusing excessively on the Bible, in a spiritual resource that seeks to illuminate what the author believes to be Jesus' original transformative and revolutionary message of hope.