Two books: Wright and Sandel
N.T. Wright: The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is This book by N.T Wright (New Testament Scholar and professor at St. Andrews) is better than I expected. This is not a proper book review by the way. And I’ve read it just once. It is a small book packed with valuable insights on the person of Jesus. Jesus? Haven’t we known all there is to know of him? Not really. Why should we study him in detail anyway if we believe what he says? Wright takes us into first century Judaism: being still in exile although back to their homeland from exile, waiting for a messiah (not a purely spiritual sin-forgiving Christ as we think), how Jesus understood his vocation ( The chapter Jesus and God is a tough one), the resurrection as new creation (and not simply that it means you can now go to heaven), post-modern critique of arrogant enlightenment and Wright’s critique of postmodernism itself-to appreciate but also go beyond it and to come out on the other side. The Chapter, ‘T...