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Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality

Ravi Zacharias

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

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ISBN:	0892963190 (ISBN13: 9780892963195)
Edition Language:	English

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The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ.
In WHY JESUS?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm" by discussing the 60s-70s "Age of Aquarius," actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors.

Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible.

The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.

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Title	:	Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality
Author	:	Ravi Zacharias
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	January 25th 2012 by FaithWords (first published January 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Christian. Nonfiction. Religion. Christianity. Theology. Faith

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Ravi Zacharias' book, Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth In An Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality, responds to the ever increasing interest in Spirituality in Western Culture. Since the 6o's, Americans have become more and more enamored with Eastern philosophies such as Hinduism and Buddhism, but in the "American Way," have felt free to take bits and pieces of a myriad of belief systems, often blending them with the Christian roots that are part of our heritage.Zacharias, a great observer of

This was wonderful and in many places laugh/out-loud witty! I have read "Jesus Among Secular Gods" for a Bible study and loved that. This book is a sort of precursor to that one in my estimation. This one explains more about New Age spirituality and the religious belief systems from which is is drawn. Neither book is a light read. Most apologetic writing isn't! I found both an excellent investment of time, intellect, and soul.

Ravi Zacharias is an apologist, and as one might expect from the title, he's going to be making a case for why you should believe in Jesus. Christianity is compared here with a number of other religions, religious figures and philosophies, but primarily Deepak Chopra, Oprah (he has fun with the rhyming there), Swami Vivekananda, Paramahansa Yogananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Hinduism in general, "The New Spirituality" (New Age), and atheism. Very little time is spent on Buddhism and Islam, and

The main focus of this book is New Age spirituality as it is mediated by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, in particular.He looks in depth at the career of Oprah, starting with a comment I find fascinating: her name comes from a misspelling of the biblical Orpah. Would it have made a difference to Oprah's success, he asks, if she'd had another name? (Of course, I think it would have: that's the whole point of God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name.) He also looks at the

"Why Jesus" tackles one of the biggest themes currently in Western spirituality. The subtitle of the book, "Rediscovering His Truth In An Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality", covers a wide ground and Ravi Zacharias does an admirable job in presenting his argument for Christianity.The book explains how the New Age Movement got its roots from Eastern pantheistic religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. The attractiveness of these religions have been craftily repackaged for Westerners who are

The message of the book is pretty simple: Those in the East are unfulfilled with the lack of solid answers for the meaning of life from their religions and are finding them instead in Jesus, meanwhile those in the West are not satisfied with the answers Jesus gives and search for an escape and 'positive vibes' in a mix of Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc). In a time where people in the West have been conditioned to make decisions based on feelings rather than logic and

I recommend this book mainly for the rare perspective it offers. The author, Ravi Zacharias, has a multinational Christian evangelism organization based out of Atlanta, GA. But it is his personal history that I found fascinating. His family is in the lineage of a high Hindu caste in India, but several generations ago saw them converted to Christianity. Zacharias himself was saved and began a devout Christian life in his teens. In addition to being deeply knowledgeable of the Hinduism traditions