The Life of Jesus
The focus of [The Life of Jesus] is not on religious faith nor on Jesus, but on an unnamed California boy who identifies completely with the Jesus of his Catholic education. He works as a carpenter, tells parables in a spare prose that resembles that of the Gospels, heals the sick, offers communion, dies, and is resurrected. The miraculous dimension is always understated…. Since he is completely merged with Jesus, we learn little about him that does not have a parallel in the life of Jesus. The symbolic structure has more reality than the hero's experiences in 20th-Century America.
Philip Milner, in a review of "The Life of Jesus," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, October 15, 1976; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1976 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 101, No. 18, October 15, 1976, p. 2195.
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