How God Became King : The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

from stillatim

Good stuff; at this point I'm rarely surprised by anything Wright says, and I wasn't surprised here, but he does a nice job of setting up his arguments. If only he'd write scholarly things that were a bit shorter. Or really anything that was a bit shorter.

from DubiousDisciple

Wright begins with the creeds, about Jesus being born of a virgin and dying for our sins, and bemoans the "missing middle." Christianity today has become too focused on the beginning and end of the Jesus story, and has ignored a primary message of all four Gospels: that God has come back, in the ...

from MarthaHuntley

I'm not a fan of N.T. Wright, and I hadn't even heard of this book before. But thinking lately about King Jesus, and having a long time interest in the full meaning of the Kingdom of Heaven, I was hoping, from its title, that this book would address some of that theology, and I was curious about ...

from pamjw

This book raises some interesting thoughts about why Jesus came and lived on earth. It gets a bit repetative in places, but worth a read.

from thornton37814

N. T. Wright takes a look at Jesus' purpose on earth by taking into account the Old Testament as well as what Christ revealed of His own purpose in the Gospels. It reveals truths about the Kingdom of God. He emphasizes the need to look at all of the Gospels. Somehow much of what the author was tr...