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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Religious (Nov 9 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060816090
ISBN-13: 978-0060816094
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 273 g

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What do people mean when they say they believe the Bible is the "Word of God"? And why should they be at war with each other over the role of the Bible in the life of the church? Wright, an Anglican bishop and author of Jesus and the Victory of God, believes the church needs to re-examine the Bible's role in the life and piety of its people. Surveying biblical and contemporary history, he explains how the Bible, and the church's understanding of it, have been affected by the complex interplay of religion with reason, tradition, politics and culture. In true Anglican style, Wright takes a middle road between evangelical insistence on biblical inerrancy and the modernist tendency to dismiss biblical authority as an expression of "anti-intellectual pre-modernity." His final chapter, entitled "How to Get Back on Track," prescribes a path that integrates scripture more fully into the life of the church, proclaiming the Bible in such a way that it refocuses the believing community whose central focus is "the goal of God's kingdom." Wright offers sensible insights on the transforming power of God, very necessary in these times of skepticism and confusion. (Dec.)
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"Wright offers sensible insights on the transforming power of God, very necessary in these times of skepticism and confusion." (Publishers Weekly )

"[P]robing, provocative, insightful.This is a book of uncommon wisdom for all who read and love the Bible." (Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and Executive Editor of Christianity Today )

"N. T. Wright opens for us a path beyond of the paralyzing polarization of "liberal" and "conservative." (Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christian )

"A sane and helpful study of what it means to treat the Bible as the authoritative Word of God." (Ben Witherington, author of The Brother of Jesus )

"Written by one of the leading Christian thinkers in the world today, a refreshing and accessible resource .." (John R. Franke, Professor of Theology, Biblical Theological Seminary )

"This wide-ranging whirlwind-tour account of Scripture channeling God's authority.is masterly throughout." (J. I Packer, Professor of Theology, Regent College )

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Biblical Companion, Feb 8 2008

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The title of this new work by N.T. Wright alone is audacious enough. There are mutliple layers of meaning to it ranging from a suggestion that this very book is the last word on the authority of scripture to the more obvious reference to canonical scripture being the last written word received by God.

The premise of the book is simple enough - Wright, a well known Anglican bishop and theologian proposes the following - "the authority of scripture is really a short-hand for the authority of God exercised through scripture; and God's authority is not merely His right to control and order the church, but His sovereign power, exercised in and through Jesus and the Spirit, to bring all things in heaven and on earth into subjection to His judging and healing rule."

Though only 146 pages long Wright manages to cram as much insight about scripture and the church's historical interaction with it as possible. The point of the history lesson which starts with Israel and leads us through to our post modern context is simply to show how the church has by and large drifted rather far from a healthy understanding of the authority of scripture and thus to a reasonably unhealthy place today. The book is not meant to be bleak and certainly doesn't come across that way. Rather it is meant as a corrective or a realignment for the church in terms of how we should relate to and honour scripture.

There is a brilliant overview of the period of history from the enlightenment to the end of modernity which history will most likely mark as Sept. 11, 2001. Wright provides compelling evidence that this 200 year enlightenment period has dramatically undermined the role and understanding of scripture both inside and out of the church. He also offers thoughts on how this new iconoclastic post modern age we're in is rapidly tearing down a lot of modernity/enlightenment assumptions which suggests on opportunity to reshape (or reform) our thinking regarding scripture and it's primacy in the life of the church and her members. While Wright points out some of the positive impact of post modernity he also warns against blindly embracing it in replacement of modernity.

Wright offers an intriguing hermeneutic model for the reader's use in approaching and understanding scripture - that of the five-act play. Wright says "the Bible itself offers a model for its own reading, which involves knowing where we are within the drama and what is appropriate within each act."

The acts are:

1. Creation
2. the Fall
3. Israel
4. Jesus
5. The Church

We find ourselves in the fifth act and as Wright says "we must act in the appropriate manner for this moment in the story; this will be in direct continuity with the previous acts (we are not free to suddenly jump to another narrative, a different play altogether), but such continuity implies discontinuity, a moment where genuinely new things can and do happen."

Wright's approach is intriguing in that it suggests that with the proper understanding of scripture and the authority God exercises through it we can become aware that God is continuing to do a new thing with His creation. That it is possible that we will come to new understandings and insights even now, 2000 years since Christ, and that we can do this while maintaining a high and orthodox view of scripture.

The book is brilliant. I would highly recommend it as an introductory companion to the Bible. It reads at a university level but this should not frighten anyone away. In his discussion of common misreadings of scripture Wright is even handed in observing the failings of both the traditional "right" and "left" while at the same time openly dismissing the right/left cut-and-paste dichotomy (Bible Wars) as simplistic, rooted in enlightenment/modernist tendancies and overall of great waste of time and energy which dishonours scripture and God.

I should say that Wright ends the book with a short encouragement to the highest levels of church leadership to re-establish the reading of scripture in our churches, not merely as an afterthought or a short introduction to the sermon but rather as "an act of worship, celebrating God's story, power and wisdom and, above all, God's son. This is the kind of worship through which the church is renewed in God's image, and so transformed and directed in its mission."

The call by Wright is clear - church leaders need to take scripture seriously and centre themselves and their denominations on scripture. "All too often," says Wright, "the official leaders of the various denominations are so swamped with bureaucratic and administrative tasks (which Wright is quick to say is important), that, although they still preach sermons and perhaps even give lectures, they do not give the church the benefit of fresh, careful and prayerful study of the text, but rather simply draw on their studies of many years ago and the inspiration of the urgent moment."

An excellent and challenging read.

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