The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

Andrew Klavan's book "The Truth and Beauty" explores the words of Jesus through the lives and works of English romantics, offering a fresh understanding of the Gospels and a way to encounter Jesus in a deeper and more profound way.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 05 April 2022
Publisher: Zondervan

Andrew Klavan's journey of wrestling with the words of Jesus began with a desire to understand what he read in the Gospels. He learned Greek to read the Gospels in their original languages and vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. However, it wasn't until he began exploring how some of history's greatest writers wrestled with the same issues we confront today--political upheaval, rejection of social norms, growing disbelief in God--that he found a new way of understanding what Jesus meant. In "The Truth and Beauty," Klavan combines a decades-long writing career with a lifetime of reading to discover a fresh understanding of the Gospels. By reading the words of Jesus through the life and work of writers such as William Wordsworth and John Keats, Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge--the English romantics--Klavan discovered a way to encounter Jesus in a deeper and more profound way than ever before. For readers seeking to find renewed meaning in the words of Jesus--and for those who are striving for belief in a materialistic world-- "The Truth and Beauty" offers an intimate account of one man's struggle to understand the Gospels in all their strangeness and so find his way to a life that is, as he says, the most creative, the most joyful, and surely the most true.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 221 x 147 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780310364610