{"id":4187,"date":"2007-04-09T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:27:19","slug":"benedict_xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4187","title":{"rendered":"Benedict XVI &#8211; &#8220;Jesus of Nazareth&#8221; soon available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">This is the description on Amazon.com of Benedict XVI&#8217;s book, which will be out officially on April 15th. However the English language version will probably not be available until May 15th.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\"><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\"><strong>Book Description<\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"content\">\u201cThis book is\u2026 my personal search \u2018for the face of the Lord.\u2019\u201d \u2014Benedict XVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"content\">In this bold, momentous work, the pope\u2014in his first book written as Benedict XVI\u2014seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent \u201cpopular\u201d depictions and to restore Jesus\u2019 true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. <\/p>\n<p>From <em>Jesus of Nazareth<\/em>\u2026 \u201cthe great question that will be with us throughout this entire book: But what has Jesus really brought, then, if he has not brought world peace, universal prosperity, and a better world? What has he brought? The answer is very simple: God. He has brought God! He has brought the God who once gradually unveiled his countenance first to Abraham, then to Moses and the prophets, and then in the wisdom literature\u2014the God who showed his face only in Israel, even though he was also honored among the pagans in various shadowy guises. It is this God, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the true God, whom he has brought to the peoples of the earth. He has brought God, and now we know his face, now we can call upon him. Now we know the path that we human beings have to take in this world. Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about where we are going and where we come from: faith, hope, and love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the description on Amazon.com of Benedict XVI&#8217;s book, which will be out officially on April 15th. However the English language version will probably not be available until May 15th. Book Description \u201cThis book is\u2026 my personal search \u2018for the face of the Lord.\u2019\u201d \u2014Benedict XVI In this bold, momentous work, the pope\u2014in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10403,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/10403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}