Bücher von Frank Sheed

Sheed's concern with the Gospels is to come to know Christ as he actually lived among us and as he interacted with all the various people he encountered from his infancy to his passion and death. Sheed attempted to show Jesus through his effect upon others--seeing how they saw him, trying to see why they saw him so. There is much about Mary and Joseph in their task of bringing up a Jesus; about John the Baptist; about Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalen; about Nicodemus; about people we meet only for a moment, like the man born blind and the owners of the drowned swine; and why the Pharisees, not only the worst of them but some of the best, would not accept Christ. Faith, doctrine, prayer, worship--all the content and consequences of Christian belief--rest on the person of Christ Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. In this classic study, Frank J. Sheed employs wide learning, theological sophistication, spiritual insight, and a lucid style to bring the reader to a personal encounter with the living Lord. Sheed had a distinguished career as a publisher, lecturer, street-corner evangelist, and popular writer.

In this work, one of Sheed's more popular titles, he defines sanity as living mentally in the real world. He argues that some of the more important elements of reality cannot be known save through theology. This book contains as much theology as one must know to be at home and aware in the real world. The first section treats of God as the human mind might discover him, as He has revealed Himself. The second section treats of the universe God made-particularly humanity and what has happened to it. The third section considers what the life of man should be.

¿Gott ist ein lebendiger Gott. Doch worin besteht sein Leben? Es ist schwer, diese Frage überhaupt zu stellen, so wenig sind wir gewöhnt, über dies sonderbare Thema nachzudenken. Gerade so wie wir fragen können, was wohl ein Mensch mit seiner Zeit anfängt, so können wir auch fragen: Was fängt Gott mit seiner Ewigkeit an? Was fängt er mit sich selbst an? Er ist nicht endlos müßig; doch was ist sein Lebenswerk?¿¿Frank Sheed verfaßte nie einen zusammenhangslosen Satz. Seine apologetische Leistung liegt nicht in einer Zurschaustellung von Wissenschaft ¿ er schrieb einfach, aber nie vereinfachend ¿ sondern in der Klarheit seines Denkens [¿] Wer ihn liest, wird diese Klarheit in sich aufnehmen und mit einem reineren Licht brennen.¿ (Karl Keating)¿Reinste Seelennahrung [¿] Die Theologie für Anfänger ist eine echte Entdeckung. Es lohnt sich, Frank Sheed kennenzulernen.¿ (Josef Bordat)