What Would Jesus See

What Would Jesus Seeicon

by Aaron Rosen

Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Publication
Jun 06, 2023
Format
Hardback
Illustrated
No
Price
29.99
Dimensions
5.75 x 8.75 in
ISBN
9781506478654
Pages
199
Age
Adult 18+
Category
General Nonfiction

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Description

What would Jesus see if he looked at the world around us today?

In these pages, Aaron Rosen, one of the world's leading experts on art and religion, tackles this question by considering Jesus as a visual thinker. He invites readers to use their imagination to explore with him how Jesus saw, what he saw, and why it is important today.

Rosen brings a fresh lens to the Gospels, informed by his experience as an art curator and scholar, as well as his life as a practicing Jew married to an Episcopal priest. He examines Jesus's eye for spectacle, his strategies for attentiveness, and his tools for discerning truth amid the flurry of false appearances.

As Rosen applies Jesus's unique ways of seeing the world to key challenges facing society today, he taps a surprising trove of examples drawn from art, current events, and popular culture. At the core of Jesus's ministry, Rosen finds, is a call to look at our world--especially those who are most disadvantaged--with radical empathy. In a time when our eyes have grown weary and unfocused, Rosen argues, Jesus offers us the chance to see the world with renewed vision, focused on those who need us most.

Awards & Endorsements

Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith America and author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy
"An interesting, creative, and compulsively readable book. It offers us the eyes of Jesus as a lens through which to see our own lives, the world we live in, and the history we must reckon with. It ingeniously integrates interfaith approaches and artistic modalities to present us with a perspective that is both honest about the present and hopeful about the future."

Author(s)

Aaron Rosen

Aaron Rosen

Dr. Aaron Rosen is a curator, writer, and scholar. He taught at Columbia, Yale, and Oxford Universities after receiving his PhD from Cambridge. He is director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary and visiting professor at King's College London. Rosen is the author of many books, including Art & Religion in the 21st Century. He has provided commentary for various publications and outlets, including the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, PBS, and the BBC. He lives with his wife, Rev. Dr. Carolyn Rosen, and their son on the coast of Maine, where he founded the Parsonage Gallery, exploring ecology and spirituality.

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