Jesus: Man and Master - A Vivid Portrait of His Personality and Power

by Mary C. Morrison

Through the centuries, the humanity of Jesus has been frozen into cold concepts and images that have lost their ability to move men. Mary C. Morrison sweeps away the image of Jesus as the pale Galilean with the pale halo; the ghastly figure in torment on the cross; the distant supernatural Divinity with no humanity about Him; the "Forgotten Man" of twentieth-century Christianity. In their place she reintroduces the vital, dynamic Jesus of the first three Gospels. Man And Master offers a contemporary, unsentimental, and vivid appraisal of twelve facets of Jesus' life and works. Based on sound Biblical scholarship, this refreshing, familiar portrait of Jesus meets the questioning mind of today's Christian. It is invaluable for personal reading, church study groups, religious emphasis work on college campuses, and church school teachers.

119 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Mary C. Morrison (1910-2003) devoted her life to family, teaching and writing. A major focus of her work was the gospels. She taught in a variety of settings, including Pendle Hill. The open-ended study questions she honed over years of teaching are available in Approaching the Gospels Together: A Leader’s Guide for Group Study. She recorded her own views on Jesus in Jesus, Sketches for a Portrait.

Mary Morrison and her husband, Maxey, raised a large and loving family. She considered herself 51% Episcopalian and 49% Quaker. She wrote her final Pendle Hill pamphlet, Gift of Days, out of retirement at 92.