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Saint Pendants | Home » » The Challenge of Easter | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Why do we celebrate Easter? Lost among the colored eggs and chocolate candies is Easter's bold, almost unbelievable claim: Jesus has risen from the dead, and now everything is different. Historian, biblical scholar and bestselling author N. T. Wright, in this excerpt from The Challenge of Jesus, takes a step back from the hoopla surrounding Easter to look at it in its earliest context, where we see a band of followers discovering the fulfillment of all the promises God had made to their people over the centuries, and pronouncing a new era that unsettled their friends and scandalized their oppressors. That era extends to our day, where to celebrate Easter is to receive an invitation to live as though God is among us, making everything new. | | | Features: | |
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Not New Thoughts from Wright - Small Gift BookJan 11, 2010
By MasterAP
This is a small gift book just in time for Easter. There isn't anything new from the author; the publisher has just tossed in a few bits from his earlier book, The Challenge of Jesus.
However, seeing as this is N.T. Wright, the words are still worth the 20 minutes it will take you to read one chapter of The Challenge of Easter.
This is not for fans of the Left Behind series (ie popcorn easy reading). N.T. Wright uses his vast experience and puts them to words. You would be wise to spend at least one day in consuming this book. Even 64 pages are mind-stretching when you're reading Wright's work.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 A Succinct Defense of the Resurrection of ChristJan 24, 2010
By Mike Robinson
"Mike A Robinson: Apologetic Analyst & Researcher"
One of the apologist's tasks is to defend the Resurrection of Christ and refute irrational unbelief--or any other kind of anti-Christian thought, for that matter. Today this task is obligatory because of the attacks against Christian theism from the combative contemporary atheists.
Since Christianity began, Christian scholars have proclaimed and defended the historicity and the soteriological necessity of Jesus Christ rising from the dead. In "The Challenge of Easter" the brilliant Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright delivers an outstanding summary of his massive volume on the truth of the Ressurection.
The foremost expert on the Resurrection of Christ provides:
- A readable summary of the impact of Christ coming back to life
- Evidence for Christ rising from the grave
- The true meaning of the doctrine of Jesus Christ returning to life.
This work is concise, uplifting, and written with a quantity of theological language for the believer and makes a fine gift for the non-believer. This is a marvelous, yet brief (64 pages), introduction to the topic and may lead the reader to purchase Bishop Wright's comprehensive work on the subject or Gary Habermas' books on the Resurrection. Also seeGod Does Exist!: Defending the faith using presuppositional apologetics, evidence, and the impossibility of the contrary
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
The Centrality of the ResurrectionMar 05, 2010
By J. Lonas
The resurrection is absolutely central to the Christian faith. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:17-19, "and if Christ is not raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." Understandably then, both Christ's historical resurrection and the resurrection hope of all believers are routinely targeted by Satan and the powers of this world.
In The Challenge of Easter (excerpted from the 1999 book The Challenge of Jesus), N.T. Wright, Anglican Bishop of Durham, U.K., offers a succinct rebuttal of popular attacks on the resurrection and articulates an apology of its primacy and power from biblical, historical, and cultural contexts and exhorts believers to live out the hope of the living Christ.
Wright points out that the Church from its earliest days was a "resurrection movement," and that the recurring biblical phrases "the kingdom of God" and "the resurrection of the dead" were key components of the first century Jewish worldview which would never have been understood by that audience to mean a merely "spiritual" experience. He shows that Christ's resurrection inaugurated the reality of the kingdom in time and space, something the apostles clearly understood as the starting point for their entire ministry.
Though at times a controversial figure (a discussion beyond the scope of this review), Wright demonstrates a passion for this truth that all believers should take to heart. He reminds the reader that the fact of the resurrection undercuts both the false hope of realizing the kingdom of God through human effort alone and the misdirection of simply waiting for God to someday return and take care of it all on His own. In his words, Christ laid the foundation of the coming kingdom through the resurrection, commissioned us to build on that as we follow Him in proclaiming the victory to a fallen world, and will return in glory to complete the work.
Challenge of Easter is an accessible yet scholarly take on this key issue that is ideal for solidifying this fundamental truth for new believers, expositing it for skeptical seekers, or devotional meditation to recall it to our hearts and minds and challenge us again to living it out boldly.
A good taste of Wright's writingMay 22, 2011
By John Dekker
This book is excerpted from Wright's The Challenge of Jesus. I read it during Easter week, and found it quite thought-provoking. It is, in fact, a very good introduction to Wright's writing.
Firstly, Wright's theme of the Kingdom of God comes out in this book. Wright sees New Testament Christianity as being "Jewish no-king-but God theology - with Jesus in the middle" (p. 12). He emphasises how the Jewish concept of the Kingdom of God concerned public events ("The end of Israel's exile, the overthrow of the pagan empire and the exaltation of Israel, and the return of YHWH to Zion to judge and save") and is thus much more than a new spiritual experience or sense of forgiveness.
Secondly, we see here Wright as an apologist for the physical resurrection of Jesus. He takes issue with Barbara Thiering (who says that Jesus was crucified, but did not die on the cross, p. 8) and Dominic Crossan (who does not believe that Jesus was buried, p. 22). This sort of defence is greatly expanded in Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God.
Thirdly, Wright draws some fascinating parallels between the gospel accounts and the creation narratives in Genesis. He notes that Jesus was crucified on the sixth day of the week, which corresponds to God's completion of creation (p. 33) and he was rose on the first day of the week, which inaugurates a new creation. He then says, "Mary goes to the tomb while it's still dark and in the morning light she meets Jesus in the garden. She thinks he is the gardener, and in one important sense he indeed is" (p. 34.)
Fourthly, this book contains an example of all that for which Wright gets criticised - puzzling statements of dubious orthodoxy. He says on p. 59 that Jesus did not know he was God, if by "know" we meant what the Enlightenment meant. Now, this statement is incomprehensible to me, but whatever Wright means by this, it would seem that a lot of people will be left confused as to what he is saying.
So perhaps this book has the best and worst of Wright. But like C. S. Lewis, I often find doctrinal books more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and this was a useful book to read in Eastertide.
Nice and ConciseMay 24, 2010
By B. Ross
This is a 'snapshot' of Easter apologetics. Wright is articulate and responsible in his scholarship, and this well-written little book explains the wonder of Easter in such a way that believers and non-believers can both gain a lot.
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