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THE HOPE OF GLORY
Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
Pulitzer Prize winning, 1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels in his most personal book to date. THE HOPE OF GLORY is designed to help readers make sense of the cross in a world too fraught with the competing forces of skepticism, blind acceptance, and indifference.
For Jon Meacham, like believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential truths about Christianity. A former vestryman of Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of faith and history in this meditation on the seven phrases Jesus spoke from the cross.
Beginning with "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do," and ending with "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus's message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, instead of vengeance, extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes a meditation on the origins of Christianity and how Jesus's final words created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the very order of the world.
In a tone more intimate than any of his previous award-winning works, Jon Meacham returns us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son of God, worshiped by billions.
Jon Meacham is the author of the New York Times bestsellers American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Meacham holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency and is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. Educated at The University of the South, he is a former member of the vestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and of Trinity Church Wall Street and was honored by the Anti-Defamation League with its Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
Beginning with "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do," and ending with "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus's message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, instead of vengeance, extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes a meditation on the origins of Christianity and how Jesus's final words created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the very order of the world.
In a tone more intimate than any of his previous award-winning works, Jon Meacham returns us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son of God, worshiped by billions.
Jon Meacham is the author of the New York Times bestsellers American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Meacham holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency and is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. Educated at The University of the South, he is a former member of the vestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and of Trinity Church Wall Street and was honored by the Anti-Defamation League with its Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
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Published 2020-02-01 by Convergent |