Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ITZYH4S | Format: PDF
Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Description
In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: The cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant. To be sure, most Christians are familiar with the Apostle Paul's teaching that Christ is the "Bridegroom" and the Church is the "Bride." But what does this really mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the "great mystery" (Ephesians 5:32)? As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a divine love story between Creator and creature, between God and Israel, between Christ and his bride-a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross. In Jesus the Bridegroom, dozens of familiar passages in the Bible - the Exodus, the Song of Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time - are suddenly transformed before our eyes. Indeed, when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition, the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever told.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 6 hours
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: March 18, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ITZYH4S
Look at who has endosed this book!!! Hahn, Archbiship Chaput, Sri, Fr. Barron, and because they ran out of room, Mike Aquilina is on the left fold of the dust jacket! Those of us familiar with the scholarship of Dr. Brant Pitre know how he brings a wealth of knowledge of the "Jewish Roots" of Christianity to all of his teachings and writings and it is not surprising that these well known clergymen and bible scholars lined up to tell us why we need to read this book.
Pitre shows us what it really means to have a "personal relationship" with Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior, and "Bridegroom". We learn how the Mystery of the Crucifixion is Jesus' wedding day, what we are to make of The Song of Solomon, why Jesus is "The Bridegoom" and why the Church is "The New Bride", and we also are shown how the 7 Sacraments are all, in their own way, "Nuptial" Mysteries, and much more. A truly awesome gift to the People of God and to the individual to take to private meditation and contemplation in the spirit of the "spousal prayer" of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross - the Carmelite spiritual masters and Doctors of the Church.
I strongly recommend visiting Dr. Pitre's website and checking out all of his CD sets which present many of his shorter bible studies as well has many of his course length topics.
By DeepSouthReader
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