Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from th
Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from the dead?
In this book N. T. Wright considers these and many other questions raised by three controversial books about Jesus: Barbara Thiering's Jesus the Man, A. N. Wilson's Jesus: A Life, and John Shelby Spong's Born of a Woman. While Wright agrees with those authors that the real, historical Jesus has many surprises in store for institutional Christianity, he also presents solid reasons for discounting their arguments, claiming that they "fail to reach anything like the right answer" as to who Jesus really was.
Written from the standpoint of professional biblical scholarship yet assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Wright's Who Was Jesus? shows convincingly that much can be gained from a rigorous historical assessment of what the Gospels say about Jesus. This is a book to engage skeptics and believers alike.
-- Calvin Theological Journal
"A gem. . . . Instead of buying and reading one of the avant-garde portraits of Jesus discussed by Wright, spend your money and time more wisely with this witty and devout rebuttal and alternate portrait."
-- Image
"In eighteen pages, Wright provides the nonspecialist with more useful information about the research on the history of Jesus than most seminarians know at graduation. . . . This book will provide reliable guidance for those wanting to better understand who Jesus really was and what he was about."
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