Justice, Love, Spirituality, Beauty, Freedom, Truth and Power. These are ideals that we all strive for, yet so often we find ourselves falling short. Why is that? In this deeply insightful meditation, Tom Wright looks to the Gospel of John for answers. With his characteristic wisdom, he shows how John can help us to see not only why we strive for these ideals, or 'signposts', but also why we so often experience them as broken. He also shows how Christianity provides us with the vision and resources for engaging with the questions posed by each signpost, pointing to a clear and compelling explanation of the world, and of our role and responsibility within it.
Tom Wright is Research Professor 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 over seventy books, including The Day the Revolution Began (2017), Paul: A biography (2018), The New Testament in its World (with Michael F. Bird, 2019), History and Eschatology (2019) and The New Testament for Everyone (2019).
Title: Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World
Author: Wright, Professor Tom
ISBN: 9780281084937
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Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Number of Pages: 216
Weight: 0.5141 kg
Wright's insights are always worth reading. . . His engaging writing style grips the reader from the opening pages. * Life and Work *
Tom Wright is one of the great biblical commentators of our day, whose writing on the Bible will stand the test of time. * Woman Alive *
Again and again he manages to bring his colossal intelligence and immense scholarship together in an extraordinarily accessible manner. * Church Times *