Retail Price: $18.00 CenturyOne Price: $12.24 You Save: $5.76 (32%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Format: Hardcover, 202pp. ISBN: 9780830822003 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November 1999 Book Information: Description Reviews Reader's Index About the Author Table of Contents Customer Reviews Find Similar Books Average Customer Review:

Order This Book! Item No: 9780830822003 Safe Shopping Guarantee

Is there really anything new to say about Jesus? And if so, could it possibly be true to Scripture and the Christian faith?

N. T. Wright, one of the premier scholars investigating the life of Jesus today, thinks we have nothing to fear and much to learn from a historical study of Jesus. The Jesus he unveils has his feet solidly planted in first-century Palestine and yet rings deeply true to the resurrected Christ of Christian belief, worship and experience.

This Jesus comes to us as one known and yet unknown, a man with a familiar profile and yet with features we had never noticed. Wright's account of Jesus is sure to grip readers with its clarity and its full accounting of the facts. Wright compels us to rethink our standard images of Jesus so that we will never read the Gospels in the same way again.

For those who don't know much about Jesus, this book launches the discovery of a lifetime. For those who do know Jesus, this book unveils exciting new perspectives that clearly echo Jesus' challenge to follow him.

For those who have studied nearly everything about Jesus, this book reinvigorates the quest to know Jesus more fully and join in shaping the world as his disciple.

N. T. Wright taught New Testament studies for twenty years in Cambridge, McGill and Oxford universities, served as Dean of Lichfield Cathedral and has been appointed as Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey. His full-scale work Jesus and the Victory of God is widely regarded as one of the most significant studies in the contemporary Third Quest of the historical Jesus.
 

Today a Renewed and Vigorous Scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings on Jesus have been widely recognized as providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait of Jesus.

Out of his own commitment to both historical scholarship and Christian ministry, Wright challenges us to roll up our sleeves and take seriously the study of the historical Jesus: "Many Christians have been, frankly, sloppy in their thinking and talking about Jesus, and hence, sadly, in their praying and in their practice of discipleship. We cannot assume that by saying the word Jesus, still less the word Christ, we are automatically in touch with the real Jesus who walked and talked in first-century Palestine... Only by hard, historical work can we move toward a fuller comprehension of what the Gospels themselves were trying to say."

The Challenge of Jesus poses a double-edged challenge: to grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within the Palestinian world of the first century, and to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.

N. T. Wright taught New Testament studies for twenty years in Cambridge, McGill and Oxford universities, served as Dean of Lichfield Cathedral and has been appointed as Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey. His full-scale work Jesus and the Victory of God is widely regarded as one of the most significant studies in the contemporary Third Quest of the historical Jesus.

	Preface
1	The Challenge of Studying Jesus
2	The Challenge of the Kingdom
3	The Challenge of the Symbols
4	The Crucified Messiah
5	Jesus & God
6	The Challenge of Easter
7	Walking to Emmaus in a Postmodern World
8	The Light of the World
	Notes

The Jesus Quest
Religion
Biblical Personalities – Jesus
The Original Jesus
The Real Jesus