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Book Cover for: Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 2, N. T. Wright

Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 2

N. T. Wright

Winner:Christianity Today Book Award -Top 25 (1997)

In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it?Wright begins by showing how the questions posed by Albert Schweitzer a century ago remain central today. Then he sketches a profile of Jesus in terms of his prophetic praxis, his subversive stories, the symbols by which he reordered his world, and the answers he gave to the key questions that any world view must address. The examination of Jesus' aims and beliefs, argued on the basis of Jesus' actions and their accompanying riddles, is sure to stimulate heated response. Wright offers a provocative portrait of Jesus as Israel's Messiah who would share and bear the fate of the nation and would embody the long-promised return of Israel's God to Zion.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 7th, 1997
  • Pages: 770
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.18in - 1.56in - 2.19lb
  • EAN: 9780800626822
  • Categories: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New TestamentChristian Theology - GeneralBiblical Studies - New Testament - Jesus, the Gospels & Acts

About the Author

Wright, N. T.: -

N. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He has taught New Testament at Oxford, St. Andrews, McGill and Cambridge. His award-winning books include The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, and Jesus and the Victory of God.

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