Vorlage:1959 Rezensionen Jesus Christus. Geistliches Wort

• [1959-000] [Englisch] Thomas E. Cassidy: Rezension zu: Guardini, Jesus Christ. Meditations, in: Worship, 34, 1959, S. 173 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=fn8TAAAAIAAJ (auf S. II imd S. 586 außerdem Verlagsanzeigen zu Guardini, Jesus Christus und zu Guardini, The conversion of Augustine)
  • S. 173: „All who have read Monsignor Guardini's epic work, The Lord, will take Jesus Christus to heart as the perfect auxiliary to the life of the Savior. It is a brilliant and moving little book. It is also a simple and beautiful series of reflections on several facets of Christ's life among us. Guardini takes single lines from the Gospels, and develops briefly and thoroughly thirteen meditations, which he first presented as sermons to the students of Berlin University. Though these sermons were given while he was writing The Lord, they are not merely footnotes, or extras. Each of these is a perfectly formed unit of profound truth and belief, of illuminating insights, and nearness to Christ. ― Above all, these are simple, delicate, and sometimes dazzling penetrations of the Word. They bring into startling focus the things that we have often overlooked, or have taken for granted. The characteristic of Christ's existence in the world of men, as that of "someone passing by," just never occurs to us very often - and not often do we feel the impact of the divine failure. "What did all His dealings, and His struggles, and His doings add up to? . . . they all took the shape of failure." The grain of wheat had to die, surely, to grow in the hearts of men who knew there was something very special about this Man. That feeling was such that it involved men in Him, aroused them „to love or hate, to very special love, and very special hate." This is Guardini. Yes - we have thought of the hate directed against Christ, leading to the crucifixion. But he brings us to think of the love-hate axis, the special nature of it, the enormous failure of Christ, who historically "did not win out . . . they defeated Him." And again, we are reminded of Jesus in the strict context of His time, when Guardini writes of His enormous, His shattering solitude. He was rooted in the life of the Jews, obligated to their tradition, so much in their line that Guardini notes that "His immediate humanity is even today most readily understood by the Jews ... after two thousand years … a people (regards) as a traitor the Mightiest Son its history boasts." Christ went through the awful misery, then, of isolation until at the very end, "even the nearness of the Father withdrew and He was left quite alone.” The book is full of such pointed newness of direction and understanding. This is its outstanding quality: “Guardini makes the simple and the plain, mighty and overpowering. Jesus Christus helps us participate in the intimacy of love in the Christian life.“
• [1959-000] [Englisch] Rezension zu: Guardini, Jesus Christus. Meditations, in: Jubilee, 7, 1959, S. 54 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=H11EAQAAIAAJ:
  • S. 54: „Sermons given by Msgr. Guardini to the students of Berlin University concerning the mystery oft he Incarnation, which readers may find disappointing after his highly successful The Lord. Guardini remarks that in examining the life of Christ one must seek always a new viewpoint to "get through to the freshness that is the figure of Christ." He does, In considering Christ's solitude and His proximity to the Father, achieve a new viewpoint but, freshness is lost in the telling. Nonetheless , the meditations are better than ordinary sermons on Jesus, giving insights into several miracles and Christ's work with the sick, and stressing how custom often has distorted the true picture of Jesus. Their first English translation is by Peter White.“
• [1959-000] Rezension zu: Guardini, Jesus Christus. Geistliches Wort, in: Lebendiges Zeugnis, Paderborn, Sommersemester 1959, 1 (Mai 1959), S. 86 [Gerner 366] - [Rezension] - [noch nicht online]
• [1959-000] [Englisch] Carroll Stuhlmueller: Rezension zu: Guardini, Jesus Christus. Meditationen (engl.), in: The Critic, 18, 1959, S. 57 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=zlvpAAAAMAAJ