Jesus and the Victory of God Volume 2

JESUS AND THE VICTORY OF GOD

Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 2

This major new multi-volume project seeks to present a comprehensive, detailed, yet highly readable assessment of the historical and theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity.

In this eagerly awaited second volume, N. T. Wright offers a penetrating assessment of the major scholarly contributions to the current 'quest' for the historical Jesus. He then sets out in fascinating detail his own compelling account of how Jesus himself understood his mission: how be believed himself called to remake Israel, the people of God, around himself; how he announced God's judgement on the Israel of his day, especially its Temple and hierarchy; and how he saw his own movement as the divinely ordained fulfilment of Israel's destiny. This revolutionary message, articulated in parables and acted out symbolically in healings and celebratory meals, drew Jesus to Jerusalem - where, as he came to realize, his vocation demanded that he would die the death he had announced for the people. In obedience to this vocation, Jesus had come to realize that he was claiming to do and be what, in Jewish thought, only God can do and be...

From the reviews of Volume 1 The New Testament and the People of God

'The sweep of Wright's project as a whole is breathtaking. It is impossible to give a fair assessment of his achievement without sounding grandiose: no New Testament scholar since Bultmann has ever attempted- let alone achieved- such an innovative and comprehensive account of New Testament history and theology.'

-Richard B. Hays

'It is difficult to know which feature of it is to be admired the most: the immense erudition... the lively examples... the integration of so many different approaches and disciplines... or the easy intelligibility of the writing and the lucid ordering of the argument.'

-Expository Times

N. T. WRIGHT is Canon of Westminster, and has taught New Testament Studies at Oxford, Cambridge and McGill Universities. His publications include The New Testament and the People of God, The Challenge of Jesus, and (with Marcus Borg) The Meaning of Jesus.