The Way of Jesus: Living a Spiritual and Ethical Life

Renowned biographer and novelist Jay Parini's The Way of Jesus is a book forprogressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, withsome of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadness, and itspossibilities for awareness and understanding.Part guide to Christian living, part spiritual autobiography, The Way of Jesus is Jay Parini's exploration of what Jesus really meant, his effort to put love first and foremost in our daily lives. A lifelong Christian who has at times wavered in hisbelief, Parini recounts his own efforts to follow Jesus's example, examines the contours of Christian thinking, and describes the solace and structure one can find in the rhythms of the Church calendar. Parini's refreshingly non-dogmaticapproach to Christian thinking incorporates teachings from other religions as well as poets who have helped Parini along his path to understanding. WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR: Parini is a well-known man of letters, author of novels, poetry,criticism, and a previous book about the historical Jesus.