-Ann Miner

An extraordinary discovery and groundbreaking gift to Western readers!

I loved this book for its vision and passion and found the negative review I saw totally off base. Amos Smith is clearly writing from the point of view of a pastor and deeply reflective student of Jesus and ancient mystic Christianity, rather than an academic scholar removed from the subject. The author speaks with deep passion about his discovery in the writings of the ancient Christian mystics of a unique spiritual truth with the power to transcend our limited conceptual dualistic tendencies to require Jesus to be either Divine or human in conformity with the limits of our intellectual mind’s capacity to hold something that is profoundly beyond conception. How could the Divine mystery of the “at once God and human” nature of Jesus not challenge and fundamentally rock our limited concepts? The critical reviewer resorts to name calling in a manner that makes me wonder if perhaps it is this fundamental challenge to our dualistic conceptual frameworks that is making him bristle. It is easy to label as “slick” a well-articulated point of view that we simply disagree with.

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I hope that Amos Smith does a Ted Talk on The Jesus Paradox, for this is an idea that truly matters!