Skip to content
Scan a barcode
Scan
Paperback To Know and Follow Jesus Book

ISBN: 0809126362

ISBN13: 9780809126361

To Know and Follow Jesus

Select Format

Select Condition ThriftBooks Help Icon

Recommended

Format: Paperback

Condition: New

$18.17
Save $1.78!
List Price $19.95
50 Available
Ships within 2-3 days

Book Overview

Those who love Jesus Christ declares Thomas Hart have always desired to know him better. Having found salvation an inspiration for their lives in him, they have wanted to understand all they can about him-- his life and teaching, his relationship to God, his inner experience, his death and resurrection, and the relevance all this has for human life.

This never-ending quest has prompted theologians of every age to keep researching and rethinking the person of Jesus and everything that pertains to him.

The theological effort to study and learn more about Jesus is known as Christology. This book is a concise and popular summary of the principal issues in Christology today. However it is not content to rest with abstract questions, Merely to "know" about Jesus is to reduce him to an object and the real Jesus inevitably escapes from those limitations. The book attempts to "do" theology from a pastoral perspective, not merely to answer question but to speak to every Christian's concern for the life of faith.

Customer Reviews

1 rating

Chalcedon's limitation and the historical Jesus

To Know and Follow Jesus:Those who love Jesus Christ (IC-XC) have always desired to know Him better, thus, beautifully declares Thomas Hart. This book is so inspired by the Spirit of Truth, that if you only can afford having one book on Christology and Soteriology find this book, buy it used, borrow it, but just read it.Tears of my childhood:When I was a kid in Sunday school of St. George and St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, in Alexandria, Egypt, I heard my first lesson in Christology; the condemnation of Dioscorus in the schismatic counsel of Chalcedon. I walked back home with a broken heart, why should those called "Christians" fight over a word, why of and in two natures make that serious difference. Behold, if this book was written thirty years earlier!It could have helped to heal the wound of knowledge of the smitten kid. Who do people say 'I Am'?Now Dr. Hart; using his talents as a professor and counselor; tells us in a friendly way what Baillie, Rahner, Schoonenberg, Tillich, and others. In a concise and clear English he leads us through the overwhelming and confusing flood of recent studies about Jesus Christ (as : our lord and Savior) Chalcedon and the historical Jesus:Now Thomas in the same spirit of his namesake formulates his critique of Chalcedon, and invites R. Brown, J. Fitzmyer, J.Knox, using the scripture as the vital source for philosophy. He questions Thomas Aquinas use of Aristotelian philosophy, and even dares to state" The New Testament does not speak of two natures in one person,..." Now he rightly qualifies Chalcedon : "a monument in the history of theological reflections on Jesus"To follow Jesus, know him:This is the beauty of this book, Thomas N. Hart (N. may stand for his description as Neo-thomist or more properly Neo-Scolastic), leads us in the way of knowledge (ch. 1-5): I. The experience of salvation, II. Christian discipleship, V. The inner experience of Jesus. To know IC XC is to love him, this is true salvation that the Alexandrine fathers taught.Afterward: This book does not maintain an index, in exchange, suggestions for further readings, an exhaustive list but up to the point. Daniel O'Hanlon comments;"This is the kind of book that leaves the reader feeling nourished and refreshed."
Copyright © 2025 Thriftbooks.com Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information | Cookie Policy | Cookie Preferences | Accessibility Statement
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
GoDaddy Verified and Secured