The Truth and Beauty
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Read by the author.
Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus.
Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus.
He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original languages, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. But 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 people 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."
Customer Reviews
Deep and Powerful
Insight is phenomenal. Excellent.
What a Joy
Klavan’s account of anything is worth the price of admission. I’m not out of the second chapter yet and I’m certain I love this book. The only poetry I ever wrote was to a girlfriend in high school. The only poetry I can read, patiently, I have never discovered. But this story of the Lake Poets that Klavan is telling has me riveted. These characters, these poets, the influences that nurtured them and the crowd they ran in—all rising like the steam of a hobo stew behind Klavan’s eyes and onto the page in front of me—are pure joy to read.
Comment of the week for the Klavan show
I bought Truth And Beauty by Lord Klavan, and now I'm speaking like Shake Shakespeare in common conversation, attracting beautiful women and suspicion from the police. Hopefully, since the Truth And Beauty has made me more like Jesus, I too look forward to being crucified like Him by the woke culturati. Thanks Klavan - great book man.