Description
Come into the Light
by Tony Scully
Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
978-1-7252-7997-1 / paperback / $30
Tony Scully’s poems in Come into the Light offer an
outspoken conversation with the Gospels, arguably the
most transformative teaching in our known history. The
wisdom of the great masters among us, Jesus, the Buddha,
and Mohammed, speak of universal compassion, love, and
forgiveness. Jesus preaches that one will find God, not in
invoking what amounts to an anthropomorphic idol, but in
searching one’s own heart, as in his fundamental teaching,
“the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21).
Tony Scully’s poems address Jesus, the central figure of the
Gospels, with questioning, irreverence, and occasional
confrontation. In his view, many of the stories, even that of
the resurrection itself, hinge on miracles, reflecting earlier
religions that expected gods to cure illnesses, raise the dead,
and even to walk on water, rather than on the powers of
compassion, love, and forgiveness that characterize Jesus.
In the author’s view, the heart of Jesus is proof enough of
his transcendence.