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beejai's review
4.0
Any time you sit down to read a book by NT Wright, you are guaranteed to be getting some top quality theology. He is readable and down to earth while also being both incredibly innovative and profound. Even if you do not agree with everything he says, there is no question that he has invested a lot of thought and scholarship into his ideas. Beyond that, there is a humility and sincerity in his writing makes it clear he does his best to live out what he claims to believe.
This book was originally written in 1995 and you can see that many of the ideas he touches on here will be developed more thoroughly in later works. In a sense, this is actually two small books combined. In the first half, NT Wright presents a survey of six different books in the New Testament (Hebrews, Colossians, Matthew, John, Mark, Revelation). In the second half, he dives into six different theological concepts resurrection, rebirth, temptation, hell, heaven, and the new earth. In some of these, he dances on the edge of orthodoxy. He doesn't really step outside of it, but rather he challenges common simple distortions of it.
In all, this book is a great primer or refresher for NT Wright. It doesn't get too deep into any one idea but rather hits mountaintops of many. Like I said earlier, some of those concepts will be more thoroughly explored in some of his later works and, for me personally, it is those I would rather be reading. This is good, those (like Simply Jesus, How God Became King, and The Day the Revolution Began) are great.
This book was originally written in 1995 and you can see that many of the ideas he touches on here will be developed more thoroughly in later works. In a sense, this is actually two small books combined. In the first half, NT Wright presents a survey of six different books in the New Testament (Hebrews, Colossians, Matthew, John, Mark, Revelation). In the second half, he dives into six different theological concepts resurrection, rebirth, temptation, hell, heaven, and the new earth. In some of these, he dances on the edge of orthodoxy. He doesn't really step outside of it, but rather he challenges common simple distortions of it.
In all, this book is a great primer or refresher for NT Wright. It doesn't get too deep into any one idea but rather hits mountaintops of many. Like I said earlier, some of those concepts will be more thoroughly explored in some of his later works and, for me personally, it is those I would rather be reading. This is good, those (like Simply Jesus, How God Became King, and The Day the Revolution Began) are great.
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