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Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good
Tom Wright
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Description for Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good
Paperback. A new book for anyone interested in popular theology - whether believer, agnostic or atheist. Wright shows how a first-century audience would have received the gospel message, what the 'good news' means for us today and how it can transform our lives. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
The Gospel means good news, but what makes it news? If the message has been around for 2,000 years, what could possibly be newsworthy about it? And what makes it good? Surely not the stories we hear of damnation, violence, and an angry God. Tom Wright believes many Christians have lost sight of what the ‘good news’ of the gospel really is. In Simply Good News, he shows how a first-century audience would have received the gospel message, what the ‘good news’ means for us today and how it can transform our lives.
The Gospel means good news, but what makes it news? If the message has been around for 2,000 years, what could possibly be newsworthy about it? And what makes it good? Surely not the stories we hear of damnation, violence, and an angry God. Tom Wright believes many Christians have lost sight of what the ‘good news’ of the gospel really is. In Simply Good News, he shows how a first-century audience would have received the gospel message, what the ‘good news’ means for us today and how it can transform our lives.
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281073030
SKU
V9780281073030
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99-2
About Tom Wright
Tom Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is the author of more than 80 influential books, including The New Testament for Everyone, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, The Day the Revolution Began, Paul: A biography, The New Testament in its World, On Earth as in Heaven and Into the Heart of Romans (all published by SPCK).
Reviews for Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good
‘Tom Wright is, as always, brilliant at distilling immense scholarship into vivid, clear and accessible form.’
Rowan Williams
N.T. Wright is the most prolific biblical scholar in a generation. Some say he is the most important apologist since C. S. Lewis.
Christianity Today
Through his sermonic delivery, which is accessible, stimulating and relevant, Wright deconstructs the false barrier that has been erected between academic and practical theology. As a biblical scholar, he brings us into the world of second temple Judaism and helps us to set the Good News in its Hellenistic context. As a pastor, he gently guides us into prayer, through his meditation on the Lord’s Prayer in the final chapter, giving us lots of suggestions about how we can re-engage with the Gospel as news.
Eimhin Walsh
The Church of Ireland Gazette
Rowan Williams
N.T. Wright is the most prolific biblical scholar in a generation. Some say he is the most important apologist since C. S. Lewis.
Christianity Today
Through his sermonic delivery, which is accessible, stimulating and relevant, Wright deconstructs the false barrier that has been erected between academic and practical theology. As a biblical scholar, he brings us into the world of second temple Judaism and helps us to set the Good News in its Hellenistic context. As a pastor, he gently guides us into prayer, through his meditation on the Lord’s Prayer in the final chapter, giving us lots of suggestions about how we can re-engage with the Gospel as news.
Eimhin Walsh
The Church of Ireland Gazette