Life of Christ

The Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen, 658 pages

In The Life of Christ, Archbishop Sheen walks step by step through the Gospels, from the Annunciation to the Ascension.  The whole enterprise is rooted deeply in Scripture, with hardly a paragraph that does not include a corresponding passage from the Bible taken from Msgr Knox's beautiful translation.

Sheen's retelling focuses on the unity of the Gospel story, emphasizing the connections between the various events as the narrative moves forward.  In Sheen's reflections, the entire life of Christ - indeed, all of human history - is one long Way of the Cross, a continuous act of sacrifice, revelation, and redemption.  Behind the shadow of the Cross, however, the light of the Resurrection is always present.