The Gospel of Pure Human Kindness: An Interpretation of the Gospel According to John

By Charles F. Tekula Jr.

With The Gospel of Pure Human Kindness, Charles F. Tekula, Jr. brings to light the very nature of Jesus the Nazorean in an eminently readable interpretive adaptation of the Gospel According to St. John, taken from the King James. By updating the phraseology with familiar terms and idioms and putting the chapters into standard book format, sans numbered verses, Tekula has put the fullness of the story back into the message. He illuminates the true heart of the Gospel by replacing the narrator's identification of Jesus from his angelically given Greek name (meaning God Saves") to the English "Pure Human Kindness." In this way it is transformed from a name that modern civilization gives as many meanings to as there are philosophies and cultures within it, to one whose interpretation is singular, point on and unmistakable. As the author explains in his introduction, Jesus showed Himself to be, by His very words and actions, a "pure human kindness with the power and authority of Almighty God to back it up." To read "The Gospel of Pure Human Kindness" is to meet the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the form of His living metaphor, Jesus, the Davidic Galilean Jew, who inspired the Apostle John to write the everlasting words, "God is love."(I John 4:16)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 30, 2007
• ISBN: 9781465334282

Charles F. Tekula Jr.

Charles F. Tekula, Jr. was raised atheist in post WWII Levittown, Long Island. Having had a personal conversion as a young adult, the author left college and went on to be a full-time commercial fisherman, which he still is to this day. Having labored his entire adult life in the trade of many of the original apostles, and having had virtually no religious indoctrination as a child, Tekula displays a unique insight into the Holy Scriptures. This comes forth in his first book, The Hidden Kingdom (Writers Club Press 2002), and in this, his second published book. Charles Tekula has earned a Bachelors degree in Public Policy/Labor Studies from SUNY Empire State, spent a year studying at Touro Law Center and has served as a public sector elected union official.

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