Book description
'Put Jesus, the risen Jesus, in the middle of your life, your
thinking, your living, your work, your pains, your griefs, your
anxieties, your hopes, and your fears -- put this Jesus in the middle,
and work them all around him. Learn to worship him; learn to love him;
and learn to live with a new life in his new world.' So ends this
exhilarating sequence of meditations on the biblical Jesus, and what
it means to follow him today. In Part One, 'Looking to Jesus', NT
Wright outlines the essential message of six major New Testament
books, looking in particular at their portrayal of Jesus -- 'the
pioneer and perfecter of our faith'- and what he accomplished in his
sacrificial death. In Part Two, 'A Living Sacrifice', he takes six key
New Testament themes -- resurrection, re-birth, temptation, hell,
heaven, and new life -- and explores their significance for the lives
of present-day disciples.
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.
