How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
A Christian, Nonfiction, Religion book. Part of Johns meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when...
New Testament scholar N.T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the Scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection have opened up in our collective spiritual story, tracing a narrative from Eden, to Jesus, to today. Wright’s powerful re-reading of the Gospels helps us re-align the focus of our spiritual beliefs, which have for too long been focused on the...
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All the functions of the Temple festival, presence, priesthood, and now sacrifice have devolved onto Jesus. This is the heart of Johns high Christology. Tom Wright, How God Became King: Getting to the heart of the Gospels Our questions have been wrongly put, because they havent been about the kingdom. They havent been about Gods sovereign, saving rule coming on earth as in heaven. Instead, our questions have been about a salvation that rescues people from the world, instead of for the world. Going to heaven has been the object (ever since the Middle Ages at least, in the Western church); sin is what stops us from getting there; so the cross must deal with sin, so that we can leave this world and go to the much better one in the sky, or in eternity, or wherever. But this... When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong." (on atonement theories) N.T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
N.T. Wright Switches Questions with an `Explosive' ResultMillions of Americans know former Bishop N.T. "Tom" Wright as the man who defends the Bible against skeptics. It certainly doesn't hurt that Wright does this in a wonderfully resonant British accent with the confident air of a latter-day C.S. Lewis, who in his day was a famous... Another in Tom Wright's series of answers to the postmodern challenge. I mistakenly bought this one instead of 'simply Jesus', but was glad to find that they complemented rather than repeating one another. Whereas simply Jesus addresses the why, the who and the how of Christianity, how god became king develops a framework for interpreting... Great book! Wright really gives a great "bird's-eye" view of this crucial theme.
