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  • How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
  • By: Andrew Klavan
  • Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)
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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."

©2022 Andrew Klavan (P)2022 Zondervan

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Deeply moving and enlightening

I loved everything about the book and I do love the author's voice and passion towards his narrative, but his intonation is at times a bit journalistic and that can be a bit annoying. Amazing book though.

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Fascinating

I enjoyed listening to Klavan recounting all the literary works prior to the last few chapters focusing on the Gospels - learning about the authors, their works and their philosophies and opening me up to some new old reading/listening material (gratitude). Eloquently spoken as always. I found the majority of his takes on the Gospels and a few points he made, like the section about Jesus’ relationship with His mother and earthly father, to be truly fascinating… but I must admit that there were a few points I was struggling to reconcile with my own beliefs as a Christian, regarding what it means to be Christlike or “becoming the Logos” and how that’s achieved. I think Klavan does well to explain how Jesus was fully man, but not necessarily well on how He was also fully God - making it sound as though Jesus was an extension of God the Father, instead of the whole second person of the Trinity Himself. I don’t think there’s enough credence given to the power of the Holy Spirit and His necessary indwelling for a person to actually be able to live a life even remotely close to that which is described by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. That said, I enjoyed this Audiobook a lot and I will be giving it another listen to try and fully grasp his conclusions.

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Excellent!!!

This book is really worth listening to and has has a lot of depth. Very thought provoking … would definitely recommend!

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truthfully a beautiful book

I loved this book, and I think I will listen to it again and again, as its depth of truth needs further exploring.

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I didn't want it to end

The author, Andrew Klavan, reads his book very well. The pacing is excellent, the ideas enlightening. My only criticism is that I wish it were longer, which is no real criticism at all.

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