Jesus and the Victory of God (1): Jesus now and Then
At the moment I am going through the second two volumes of N.T. Wright’s Christian Origins and the Question of God series. Part of what I’m doing in reading the books is giving a review and summary of...
View ArticleJesus and the Victory of God (2): Heavy Traffic on the Wredebahn
In his second chapter, Write begins to lay the foundation of his argument through an exhaustive examination of the history of Jesus scholarship. At the outset he notes two very broad and basic threads...
View ArticleJesus and the Victory of God (3): Back to the Future
In his third chapter, Wright edges closer to beginning his own constructive work on Jesus as he outlines in more detail the nature of his inquiry into the life of Jesus. Over-against the skeptical...
View ArticleJesus and the Victory of God (4): Prodigals and Paradigms
In the final chapter of his introductory section, Wright engages in a close reading of the parable of the prodigal son (which is also the parable of the “prodigal father” in Wright’s reading) and then...
View ArticleJesus and the Victory of God (5): The Praxis of a Prophet
Now moving on to his constructive presentation of Jesus, Wright begins to unpack the center of his case. His key argument is that Jesus, when placed in his first century context is best understood as...
View ArticleJesus and the Victory of God (6): Stories of the Kingdom 1
As he moves into the first of three chapters dealing with the concept of the kingdom of God, Wright seeks to establish the way in which kingdom-of-God languages functioned in first century Judaism, and...
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