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# Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel Paperback – January 5, 2000

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The dawn from on high shall break upon us...
*by L***A on May 22, 2014*

This book is ideal for anyone who wants an inspirational, fast-paced overview of the New Testament. The main thrust is this: Christianity is about the living Jesus as found in the sacraments, the scripture, the personal and communal (Church) experiences of the Holy Spirit, and the lives of the saints (who heroically apply the Good News to the specifics of their lives). Johnson provides a 30,000 feet overview of the epistles and the Gospels, with this theme in the foreground.The key challenge is to draw upon these resources that reveal the Living Jesus to live a life of holiness in your own time and place. As uplifting and educational as this book is, it will also challenge you: he is quite clear that – whatever their many differences—all of the Gospels emphasized Jesus’ profound love for the “least among us” and His self-sacrifice. To experience the living Jesus is, above all, to imitate Him in these fundamental ways.And so, How much time each week do you spend in self-sacrificing love of the least among us? In deed, not only in word? After Jesus rose from the dead, the Holy Spirit came down upon the disciples in powerful ways; today, the Holy Spirit of the resurrection can likewise animate us to continue Jesus' work on earth.Johnson always writes with vigor – his prose is energetic and brisk, opinionated but thoughtful, devout and proudly so. I read and re-read his books and look forward to re-reading all of them again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Fruit of a Believing Scholar's Study & Experience
*by A***M on December 5, 2017*

I am a pastor and read this book while doing background work on a Bible study for high school students, and I think it is outstanding. Johnson writes with a scholar's insight while continually pointing to the practical aspects of what a disciple's life looks like. His overall thesis is that Christ is not a dead, quasi-historical figure, but is the Lord and Leader, alive and well in the Church and world today. In the sacraments and the Scriptures, the proclamation of the Church and the lives of her saints, He makes Himself known and experienced.LTJ is my favorite biblical scholar alive today, and this book has cemented that opinion. I think that laypeople, especially college students would benefit from reading this book. Yet pastors and scholars will find something in it beautiful and beneficial as well.I disagree with reviews that state Johnson is a "fundamentalist." That's just silly; he is, rather, a believing, orthodox Christian in the Catholic Church and so he writes for others who want to deepen their relationship and "learn" from the Living Jesus who still speaks today...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Read, Not Quite As Powerful as The Real Jesus
*by L***E on June 12, 2013*

Luke Timothy Johnson picks up where his, The Real Jesus, left off. His main premise is that we worship a living Jesus of the present, not a dead and static Christ of the past. This sterling truth is forgotten by those whose searching for the historical Jesus often reflect their prejudices going in more than anything else. He demonstrates this admirably. Learning Jesus is more than an academic exercise. While grateful for the work and insights of the academic community, I have often found that the academy is less often about searching out the truth than discovering a novel approach which, of course, they rush into print to share with the world (which all too often is reduced to the 'world' of other academics). Johnson's anchoring of learning Jesus to the community of believers and tradition begins to look less like the impingement of academic freedom it is often represented to be, for tying it only to the academy has its own problems. Worth reading and pondering from an excellent scholar presenting a truly alive Jesus.

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