George McCully

Broschiertes Buch

CHRISTIANITY THEN and NOW

CAN IT BE SAVED?

Beschreibung

This short book presents a renewed understanding of the Christian religion, based on a new textual analysis of John's Gospel, discovering the previously unnoticed fact that it was written not as biography as with the synoptics, but as a systematic argument for the divinity of Jesus. This makes it the locus classicus-the original authoritative presentation-of the traditional Jewish Christian religion to the philosophical and scientific Hellenistic Gentile world, rendering Christianity eligible to be a worldwide religion. The book was not planned or intended. Its chapters began as separate individual pieces celebrating a series of historical occasions at my church. The discovery about John's Gospel provided an anchor for a continuous treatment, which then required connecting linkages, thus evolving into a coherent book. Our timing now is critical. It is possible that this arrives too late to be of much help, that the decline of our religion is too far gone now in this secular and technologically transforming age. But since we have no need yet to surrender, we offer this as a late arrival for public consideration.

Autor

George McCully has had two careers-first for 20 years as professor of Renaissance and Reformation history and related fields, chasing a disappearing job market at Barnard and Columbia, Swarthmore, Princeton, Yale and Wellesley. After a brief stint as a faculty dean at Brown, he entered professional philanthropy as a grant-maker for research in the sciences and humanities worldwide. By 1983 and in the next 35 years he became a full-time independent consultant in all functions of philanthropy, among many others serving as founding Board Chair of the national Center for Plant Conservation, longtime institution-development consultant of the Boston Early Music Festival, and trustee of the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation. In 1996 he turned to promoting charitable giving through donor education. He created the Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy which led to a doubling of the Commonwealth's giving from $2-4 billion in only four years; the "Generosity Index" comparing all states' ranks in income and charitable giving, which quickly became the nation's leading journalistic philanthropy story header and was chosen by the White House Council of Economic Advisors for their Weekly Economic Briefing of the President; State Giving Days, adopted by the governors of 22 States; and a series of articles proposing a transformation of American philanthropy's conceptualization and structure, designing a national donor-oriented system of state-based directories to all charities, a model of which was in 2016 granted the first U.S. patent for philanthropy. With this book he has returned to his original scholarly training and is now semi-retired and living in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9798823048552
• Artikelnr.: 74422807