God in Public
SPCK Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-281-07423-5 (ISBN)
Drawing on a collection of lectures that Tom Wright delivered from 1999 to 2015, God in Public brings together the message of Jesus – in its larger biblical context – and the challenges of the contemporary public and political worlds.
Those new to Tom Wright will find this book an ideal introduction into his writings. In this book, Wright challenges the west’s response to 9/11 and then expands to discuss a more Jesus inspired way of approaching the public problems we find ourselves in, based on the following Jesus’ life and teachings.
Questions such as: What has Christianity to do with power? Why must the church remind those in authority of their responsibilities? And What can Christians do to act as the voice of the voiceless? Are central in this book as Wright demonstrates the many ways in which faithful exegesis of scripture can throw fresh light – God’s light – on the great philosophical and ethical problems of our day.
Tom Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is the author of more than 80 influential books, including The New Testament for Everyone, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, The Day the Revolution Began, Paul: A biography, The New Testament in its World, On Earth as in Heaven and Into the Heart of Romans (all published by SPCK).
Preface ix
1 Paul and the Bible in tomorrow’s world 1
2 The Bible and the postmodern world 13
The Bible within the postmodern world 21
The postmodern world 24
3 Pilate, Caesar and Bible truth 39
Jesus and Pilate in John 18—19: introduction 39
Contemporary world: introduction 44
Jesus, Pilate and the kingdom of God 51
4 God, the earthly powers and terror 58
Speaking of God, speaking of the world 65
God, the powers and the war 70
5 Power, faith and the law 76
Signs of the times 76
Analysis: history and postmodernity 80
Secularism and fundamentalism 84
deconstructing modernity 86
Proposal: God, kingdom and hope 86
Conclusion: public God, public agenda 93
6 God, power and human flourishing 97
God and the gods 97
God and power in tomorrow’s world 99
Christ and power 102
God and mammon 107
God and human flourishing 109
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.04.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 267 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-281-07423-2 / 0281074232 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-281-07423-5 / 9780281074235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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