Book description
What am I here for? How should I behave? Most Christians, faced
with those questions, think in terms either of 'rules' or of 'living
authentically'. Both lead to problems. In this book, full of fresh
biblical exploration, Bishop Tom Wright proposes instead that we
inhabit the ancient tradition of virtue once again -- but from a
thoroughly Christian, not just a philosophical, perspective. The
virtues are the strengths we need to get to our goal. Following on
from his popular best-selling books Simply Christian and Surprised by
Hope, he sees the goal in terms of the whole new creation, with humans
renewed to look after it.
Tom Wright resigned last year as Bishop of Durham to take up a new
appointment as Research Professor of New Testament and Early
Christianity at the University of St Andrews. He is a regular
broadcaster on radio and television. Tom Wright is the author of over
forty books, including the other For Everyone guides to the New
Testament, the best-selling Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope and
Virtue Reborn; and the magisterial series entitled Christian Origins and
the Question of God.
