The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
Written by Andrew Klavan
Narrated by Andrew Klavan
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Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus.
Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus.
He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original languages, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. But it wasn't until he began exploring how some of history's greatest writers wrestled with the same issues we confront today--political upheaval, rejection of social norms, growing disbelief in God--that he found a new way of understanding what Jesus meant.
In The Truth and Beauty, Klavan combines a decades-long writing career with a lifetime of reading to discover a fresh understanding of the Gospels. By reading the words of Jesus through the life and work of writers such as William Wordsworth and John Keats, Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge--the English romantics--Klavan discovered a way to encounter Jesus in a deeper and more profound way than ever before.
For people seeking to find renewed meaning in the words of Jesus--and for those who are striving for belief in a materialistic world--The Truth and Beauty offers an intimate account of one man's struggle to understand the Gospels in all their strangeness, and so find his way to a life that is, as he says, "the most creative, the most joyful, and surely the most true."
Andrew Klavan
Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and media commentator. An internationally bestselling novelist and two-time Edgar Award-winner, Klavan is also a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute, and the host of a popular podcast on DailyWire.com, The Andrew Klavan Show. His essays and op-eds on politics, religion, movies, and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and elsewhere.
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Reviews for The Truth and Beauty
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a wise and insightful book. It tells the story of the English romantic poets in an engaging and beautiful way. I was moved by the beauty of Klavin's ideas. The connection between the English romantic poets and the story of the gospels is sometimes less clear, but there were enough insights to justify reading this brief book.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very unique and interesting. Klavan discusses things in the works he chooses and enlightens the reader in ways that only one with deep knowledge of their meaning could.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A brilliant and compelling tour de force. Beautiful writing and depth and you rarely find these days. Excellent reading performance.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interesting book weaving English Romantic poetry and history with Christian mysticism written by insightful author who become Christian as an adult
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