Christ a crisis in the life of god jack miles on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers with the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of god jack miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of jesus in so doing. This is gods supreme crisis astonishingly god resolves the dilemma by becoming a jew himself christ inflicting upon himself in advance the very agony his people will suffer revising in the process the meaning of victory and defeat. In christ crisis in the life of christ author jack miles examines how christ completed the transition from the god of the old testament to the god of the new testament he examines selected scriptures in the bible and tries to show how jesus fulfilled those prophesies. So jack miles is quite right in his new book christ a crisis in the life of god knopf 2695 to suggest a little blasphemously that the story of the new testament is the story of a self . Combining a close reading of the gospels with a range of reference that includes donne nietzche and elie wiesel christ a crisis in the life of god is a work of magnificent eloquence and imagination from the trade paperback edition