The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
 

The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

by N. T. Wright

"We cannot assume that by saying the word Jesus," writes N.T. Wright--Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey and formerly Dean of Lichtifeld Cathedral--"still less the word Christ, we are automatically in touch with the real Jesus who talked in first-century Palestine." Even less are we automatically in touch with "the Jesus who ... is the same yesterday, today and forever." Wright's goal in... (read more)

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It's taken me a long time to pick up a book by Tom Wright and I have to wonder why it took me as long as it has done. I had been coming across quotes from Wright in lots of different books that I've been reading recently, so I asked some friends about which of his books I ought to begin with. This is the one I was recommended so I dutifully bought and enthusiastically read it.

Wright contends that 'each generation has to wrestle afresh with the question of Jesus, not least its...

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