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Title: He's not far from the Kingdom
Review: Davies provides some answers to questions that have eluded the first two thousand years of Christianity. While Jesus spoke more about spirit and the Kingdom of God than anything else, traditional Christianity hardly addresses them. We have little chance of understanding Jesus without looking at these phenomena. I do tend to differ with Davies when he states that Jesus was not a teacher. I see no reason why he couldn't teach both verbally and experientially. I would recommend this book to any serious student of the real Jesus, and I am disappointed it is not more widely available. The Parables of Jesus by Richard Q. Ford is a good companion to this book. Ford, like Davies, makes the reader look at the parables in whole new ways.
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