{"product_id":"what-the-gospels-meant-isbn-9780143115120","title":"What the Gospels Meant","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.” (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook out for a new book from Garry Wills, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Qur'an Meant\u003c\/i\u003e, coming fall 2017.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In his \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers \u003ci\u003eWhat Jesus Meant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Paul Meant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eGarry Wills offers tour-de-force interpretations of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Here Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Wills examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. Hailed as \"one of the most intellectually interesting and doctrinally heterodox Christians writing today\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), Wills guides readers through the maze of meanings within these foundational texts, revealing their essential Christian truths.\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat the Gospels Meant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e “Full of riches . . . Wills brings to bear the skills that have justly brought him renown as America’s greatest public intellectual: encyclopedic erudition, concise prose and a polyglot’s gift for ancient languages. . . . This introduces . . . biblical scholarship as a whole to a wide audience of readers hungry for a sophisticated account of those eternally curious texts.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “What readers will find here is an engaging look at the Gospels, informed by the best biblical scholarship, as well as by Wills’s own faith. . . . This eminently readable volume . . . underscores the attributes of each narrative to highlight truths more crucial than whether there were four discrete Evangelists.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Wills’s scholarship . . . is impeccable, placing the gospels within their original cultural and religious context . . . A book that offers profound spiritual and historical insight in an accessible and intriguing format.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBookPage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Poetic, penetrating, and moving. General readers and scholars alike will profit from Mr. Wills’s basic contention, that reason and faith are not antinomies.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Sun \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An engrossingly concise sequel to his Paul book. Wills . . . shows that [the Gospels are] theological statements, applying Jesus to the different situations confronting each writer’s community.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Readers willing to have their impressions about these texts challenged by an erudite scholar will find this to be fascinating and worthwhile reading.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarry Wills \u003c\/b\u003eis a historian and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers \u003ci\u003eWhat Jesus Meant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePapal Sin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am a Catholic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Priests?\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong others. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303638356197,"sku":"NP9780143115120","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143115120.jpg?v=1767743887","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/what-the-gospels-meant-isbn-9780143115120","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}