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Title: The Challenge of Jesus
ISBN: 0281052867
Author:
N.T. Wright
Publicate Date: 2000-01-21
Publish: 2000-01-21
List Price: $16.08
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Wonderful
The Challenge of Jesus by N.T. Wright tries to show the conflict between history and the Bible. The book tries to wrestle with such questions like "did Jesus Know He was God." The book also tackles issues like, what happened on Easter and during the last supper?
There is a beautiful new book about Jesus, God , faith and what you will do after death entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," by John H. Eagan. I just finished it. It's really great and deals with God, the creator, Jesus' teachings, and His Passion. It brought me to tears. I think the readers of Wright's book will really enjoy The Enlightenment.
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2: A Good Survey from a Leading Figure in Jesus Scholarship
Perhaps the most influential conservative voice in "Jesus Studies" today, N. T. Wright provides here a brief and readable summary of his many years of work into the message of Jesus.
Central to his view is understanding Jesus as a Messiah very much within the context of early first century Palestinian Judaism. In this, the central meaning of the "good news of the Kingdom of God" is in regard to the prophetic themes of exile and return.
Liberal critics have charged Wright with maintaining an essentially pre-scientific view of the miraculous, as well as a high degree of confidence in the biblical records. Conservatives have been critical of his focus on exile/return -- to a degree that de-emphasizes traditional views on the centrality of a propitiatory role of the atonement and personal forgiveness. Wright repeatedly acknowledges that, on issue after issue, he believes traditional understandings would have been foreign to the Judaism contemporary with Jesus.
Wright is an engaging writer, able to communicate at a variety of levels. This book would be aimed primarily at well-educated laity or those just beginning studies in the life of Christ at college or seminary level. It is also, in large part, an introduction to Wright's impressive amount of published works (both scholarly and popular).
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3: So Necessary
Wright is a model for the Pastor-Theologian. Not only are his words grounded in a most solid foundation, not only do they quickly challenge our theology (in a healthy way) but they are accessible by most intermediate readers.
Thank you Bishop Wright!
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4: The Faith and History of Jesus Presented to Us as a Challenge
I've been a fan of N.T. Wright ever since I read his book The Meaning of Jesus:Two Visions" which he co-authored with Marcus Borg. I came across this book about half a year ago. I still haven't understood all of the implications which can be gleamed from this very clear account of what Jesus and God and the history of Israel are all about.
Wright speaks of Jesus as the unique one off achievement of God in the history of the world. Jesus as the messiah who inaugurated the new creation and forgave the world of sin.
This book is based on a series of lectures Wright gave for an InterVarsity press conference in 1999. They can be listened to on his unofficial page: [...]
The book is persuasive, though I will leave its description to other reviewers who have done a very nice job of summing it up. I highly recommend this book as a way to step into Wright's larger series on Christian Origins and the Question of God. I am about to read the first work in this series, "The New Testament and the People of God." If the Challenge of Jesus is just a taste then I suspect the fuller treatment of the themes found in its pages will be rewarding.
Very compelling scholarship and historically accurate account of Jesus
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5: Jesus of Faith and History
Wright's look at Jesus comes from the eyes of the Jewish expectation of the Messiah. He attempts to answer the questions: Was Jesus the foretold Messiah? How did Jesus accomplish that end? How did he radically move from the expectations of what the Messiah was to do?
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