Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist - This volume aims to approximate Jesus with historical rigor and in simple language, in order to bring his person and message closer to people today.
Archimandrite Vassilios Bakoyannis was born in Greece in 1953 and was ordained in 1980. He serves in the metropolis of Patras, Greece. He received a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Belgrade (Serbia), a master's in theology from St. Vladimir's Seminary (New York, USA) and a Ph.D in theology from Atlantic International University (USA). Since 1975, he has authored over 50 spiritual books, several of which have been translated from Greek to English, Romanian, Russian, ...
People are our greatest assets; persons are our best-loved gifts. We treasure people and particular persons for the varied ways in which they enrich our lives and bring out the best in us. Persons Are Our Best Gifts is a treasury of "people-gifts"—a collection of over one hundred inspiring and motivational “stories-with-a-difference” centered on personality and relationships.
Words for reflection and reconciliation
The provoking proposal of Jesu
Part I: Compassion as a principle of action
The research on Jesus reaches a fairly widespread conclusion. Jesus of Nazareth was a man, perhaps the only one, who lived and communicated a sane experience of God, without distorting it with the fears, ambition and fantasies which different religions ordinarily project on to the divinity.
Jesus never speaks of God as indifferent or distant, uninvolved with the life of human beings or interested only in his honor, his glory and his rights. At the heart of his experience we do not find the image of a lawgiver God who wants to govern the world through laws, while threatening his creatures with terrible punishments or winning them over with wonderful rewards. Neither does he experience God as a righteous being annoyed and angry at the sight of our sins.
