Jack Miles è un autore americano la cui opera si addentra nella religione, nella politica e nella cultura. La sua scrittura esplora le intricate connessioni tra fede e vita contemporanea, offrendo prospettive illuminanti sulle sfide sociali e spirituali della nostra era. Lo stile di Miles è caratterizzato dalla sua profondità di analisi e chiarezza di espressione, consentendo ai lettori di cogliere argomenti complessi con una nuova comprensione.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. A Friendship in Twilight is their plague journal. In raw and searching letters, written daily from the first lockdowns through the Capitol riot, they reflect on life during overlapping crises.
This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism (Volume 1); Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Volume 2). The anthology brings together foundational works—the Bhagavad Gita, the Daodejing, the Bible, the Qur'an—with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices over centuries have kept these religions vital. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure, this Norton Anthology provides accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations, and chronologies. It also includes a dazzling general introduction by Jack Miles that questions whether religion can be defined and illuminates how world religions came to be acknowledged and studied, absorbed and altered, understood and misunderstood.For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us all "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will…In that capacity lies the foundation of human sympathy and cultural wisdom."
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles offered a highly original approach to the character of the God of the Old Testament, addressing him as a character in a book, a literary charter.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.
Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from the popular conception of the heart of Islam. So, too, does Miles uncover the spiritual and scriptural continuity of the Islamic tradition with those of Judaism and Christianity, and the deep affinities among the three by setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an side by side. In the spirit of his two previous books, God and Christ, and with his characteristic sensitivity, perspicacity and prodigious command of the subject, Miles calls for us all to read another’s scriptures with the same understanding and accommodating eye that we turn upon our own.
A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.
"WITHOUT THEM YOU CANNOT WIN A BATTLE, WITHOUT THEM YOU CAN DO NOTHING AT ALL." These are the words of Field Marshal Montgomery, speaking of the infantry, and of all infantry formations they apply most squarely to the Foot Regiments. At last, J. A. Miles has dedicated a scholarly work to the ones everybody takes for granted: the men of the Foot Regiments. From the beginnings of Britain's modern army in Cromwell's day, Miles spotlights and clarifies the role the Foot Regiments played in every major battle in which the British Army took part until 1900.
Jack Miles, Theologe, Bibel- und Literaturwissenschaftler, hat die Bibel als eine literarische Komposition gelesen: Das Alte Testament beginnt mit Gott, der zu sich selbst spricht, als er die Welt plant, und es endet mit seinem absoluten Schweigen, seinem Rückzug aus der Welt. Zwischen diesem Anfang und Ende folgt Jack Miles dieser wandlungsfähigen Gestalt und demonstriert, wie sich das Gottesbild des Alten Testaments verändert und entwickelt. Er zeigt, daß es das Dogma von der Unverrückbarkeit Gottes ist, von dem wir uns verabschieden müssen. Ein Buch über die zentrale Geschichte des jüdisch-christlichen Abendlandes: die Entdeckung der Bibel als monumentale Dichtung der Menschheit. Jack Miles erhielt für sein Buch 1996 den Pulitzer-Preis. »Jack Miles' Gottesbiographie läßt uns das Drama der Beziehung zwischen Gott und den Menschen wieder neu erleben... Ein wundervolles Buch.« FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU
Das Leben Jesu, wie es durch das Neue Testament überliefert wird - jetzt zu lesen wie ein Stück Weltliteratur. Jack Miles entdeckt in der Figur Jesu einen Charakterzug des alttestamentarischen Gottes, der nur in der Person seines Sohnes wirklich sichtbar werden konnte: seine Schwäche, die im Tod am Kreuz bis in die grausamste Form gesteigert wird. Literatur oder Offenbarung? Beides ist denkbar, gleich wie man zum christlichen Glauben steht.
