Quotes from Jay Parini
The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.
- Jay Parini
Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.
- Jay Parini
In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.
- Jay Parini
Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
- Jay Parini
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Jay Parini
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
- Jay Parini
I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
- Jay Parini
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
- Jay Parini
The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.
- Jay Parini
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
- Jay Parini
My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
- Jay Parini
Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
- Jay Parini