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Pros
This book creates a rewarding spiritual interaction with the savior. I appreciate his clarity in arguing that the gospel is mainly and most of all about jesus becoming king. He tries to help us modern readers step into the shoes of a hebrew living in ... Read More
Tom wright is probably the world's most famous biblical scholar. Wright uses the metaphor of the perfect storm to understand both our conditionsin the 21st century, and the lifetime of jesus in the 1st century. Wright explains jesus in a manner that i... Read More
This particular book (as all the simply series) is extremely helpful as it summarizes a little better what his larger works expound upon exhaustively. This involves humans, principalities and powers, etc. It is always being used to justify and rationa... Read More
Nt wright is an exceptional writer and researcher. Wright has a way to clearly state the not-so-obvious.
Jesus of nazareth was born and raised, and changed the course of civilization. Simply jesus is a great way to remember how jesus became the center of christianity.
Cons
The new testament isn't metaphor or intentional story-telling, except when it's convenient for it to be so. It constitutes an extended circular argument for a literal reading of the new testament.
Highlights
Quality
I am steadily surprised and delighted by the clarity and verve of tom wrights presentation of christian belief
This book creates a rewarding spiritual interaction with the savior
I do have some trouble with the languaging of kingdom and jesus as king but can translate that into something more current and ... Read More
Packaging/appearance
I most appreciate that he keeps the main thing the main thing and i felt drawn in to want to know jesus who he was why he came ... Read More
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Though his teaching is dense it is not in the least inaccessible
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This masterful work—looking at the historical jesus but also the jesus of today—provides a framework of what it looks like when jesus is king and takes charge
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While not necessarily agreeing with everything n
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My faith tradition is orthodoxcatholic from which perspective i take jesus divinity very seriously
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In his search for the historical jesus a phrase that makes me gag wright postulates a perfect storm theory of the jewish world of jesus time a theory which leaves jesus little more than yet another confused prophet
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I would not recommend this book to someone new to the christian faith unless the reader were provided guidance andor a place to discuss the contents
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