Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women

by Andrew M. Greeley

Book Overview

This engaging collection of homilies reveals a Jesus whose simple parables carry profound lessons about the Kingdom of Heaven. Along the way, Father Greeley touches on provocative topics, such as the significance of Jesus's Jewish roots, his relationship with women, The Da Vinci Code, and The Passion of the Christ.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765317761
• ISBN13: 9780765317766
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful insight

Greely does it again. One of the best contemporary insights into Jesus' teachings...and lesson for today's society!

Jesus of Galilee.

How I wish that the leaders of our Catholic Church were more like the real Jesus.He saw women as equals, men and woman created in His Father's image.Andrew Greeley's book tells how Jesus respected woman and of the wonderful relationships he had with them.

Excellent & uplifting

Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships With Women is a marvelous book. The meditations are loving and uplifting, they show how much Jesus loves us and respects us and teaches other to do like wise. I shared this book with my niece, who is 20 years younger than I am and she is presently enjoying it. I recomend it to women, so that they can feel the love that is pure and I recomend it to men as a teaching tool showin them how women should be loved and treated.

reminded why Jesus remains relevant today

Known for his Nuala Anne McGrail and Bishop Blackie mysteries, Father Andrew Greeley provides an enlightening look at Jesus especially his relationships with women and not just females named Mary and his place in the twenty-first century of technology, science, and Da Vinci Codes. Father Greeley also provides a fascinating interpretation of the four major parables and some other tales told of or by Jesus. Well written Jesus reminds us that God has room for everyone in his tent as he and his son love all. Insightful Father Greeley reminds the faithful that there is a special place for the victims of genocides; the victims of the Holocaust, Darfur, and Rwanda, etc. This is an excellent work that will probably lead to proclamations by those who use Jesus as a weapon that Father Greeley will burn for his sins; while those like this reviewer are reminded why Jesus remains relevant today. Harriet Klausner

5 stars

***** Recent years have brough an onslaught of books, films, and other various forms of speculation about Jesus and his relationships with women, especially the notion that there could be a Mrs. Jesus. In the rush to look for gossip and scandal, or to refute the same, people have drifted between two heresies, gnosticism and docestism, while completely missing the glorious truth about the wondrous being of Christ, who is both God and man. Part of that identity was indeed how he related to women, and another major part of his persona was that of a storyteller. Father Greeley examines these two facets with a joyous love that makes you want to rush to find a Bible and re-experience the whole saga all over again. There are many books that give fascinating, intellectual insights into Scripture, but none of these unbiased, strictly factual volumes exudes the warmth and joy you find flowing for Father Greeley's pen. He offers a few new perspectives and insights, some startling, and some I do not fully agree with, but he is not offensive and does not provoke ire. If you have ever thought about Jesus, then this is a book that you should read. *****