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Wright.  aLondon :bSPCK,cc1992.  avolumes <1-4> ;c22-24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.00gv. 1.tThe New Testament and the people of God.tChristian Origins and the New Testament --tThe Task --tWhat to Do with the Wicked Tenants --tThe Questions --tThe History of Early Christianity --t'New Testament Theology' --tLiterary Criticism --tThe Task Restated --tTools for the Task --tKnowledge: Problems and Varieties --tTowards Critical Realism --tStories, Worldviews and Knowledge --tLiterature, Story and the Articulation of Worldviews --tOn Reading --t'Is There Anybody There?' --tReading and Critical Realism --tOn Literature --tThe Nature of Stories --tThe Analysis of Stories: Narrative Structure --tThe Analysis of Stories: The Wicked Tenants --tJesus, Paul and the Jewish Stories --tHistory and the First Century --tThe Impossibility of 'Mere History' --tThis Does Not Mean 'No Facts' --tCritical Realism and the Threat of the Disappearing Object --tThe Causes of the Misconception --tWanted: New Categories --tHistorical Method: Hypothesis and Verification --tThe Requirements of a Good Hypothesis --tProblems in Verification --tFrom Event to Meaning --tEvent and Intention --tHistory and Narrative --tHistory and Meaning --tHistorical Study of First-Century Religious Movements --tJudaism in the First Century --tChristianity in the First Century --tTheology, Authority and the New Testament --tIntroduction: From Literature and History to Theology --tWorldview and Theology --tOn Worldviews --tOn Theology --tOn Christian Theology --tWorldviews, Theology and Biblical Studies --tTheology, Narrative and Authority --tFirst-Century Judaism within the Greco-Roman World --00gv. 2.tJesus and the victory of God.tJesus then and now --tHeavy traffic on Wredebahn: the 'new quest' renewed? --tBack to the future: the 'third quest' --tProdigals and paradigms --tThe praxis of a prophet --tStories of the kingdom (1): announcement --tStories of the kingdom (2): invitation, welcome, challenge and summons --tStories of the kingdom (3): judgment and vindication --tSymbol and controversy --tThe questions of the kingdom --tJesus and Israel: the meaning of Messiahship --tThe reasons for Jesus' crucifixion --tThe return of the king --tResults --00gv. 3.tThe resurrection of the Son of God.tThe target and the arrows --tShadows, souls and where they go: life beyond death in ancient paganism --tTime to wake up (1): death and beyond in the Old Testament --tTime to wake up (2): hope beyond death in post-biblical Judaism --tResurrection in Paul (outside the Corinthian correspondence) --tResurrection in Corinth (1): introduction --tResurrection in Corinth (2): the key passages --tWhen Paul saw Jesus --tHope refocused (1): gospel traditions outside the Easter narratives --tHope refocused (2): other New Testament writings --tHope refocused (3): non-canonical early Christian texts --tHope in person: Jesus as Messiah and Lord --tGeneral issues in the Easter stories --tFear and trembling: Mark --tEarthquakes and angels: Matthew --tBurning hearts and broken bread: Luke --tNew day, new tasks: John --tEaster and history --tThe risen Jesus as the Son of God --00gv. 4.tPaul and the faithfulness of God.gPart I.tPaul and his world.tReturn of the runaway? --tLike birds overhead : the faithfulness of the God of Israel --tAthene and her owl : the wisdom of the Greeks --tA cock for Asclepius : 'religion' and 'culture' in Paul's world --tThe eagle has landed : Rome and the challenge of empire --gPart II.tThe mindset of the apostle.tA bird in the hand? : the symbolic praxis of Paul's world --tThe plot, the plan and the storied worldview --tFive signposts to the apostolic mindset --gPart III.tPaul's theology.tThe one God of Israel, freshly revealed --tThe people of God, freshly reworked --tGod's future for the world, freshly imagined --gPart IV.tPaul in history.tThe lion and the eagle : Paul in Caesar's empire --tA different sacrifice : Paul and 'religion' --tThe foolishness of God : Paul among the philosophers --tTo know the place for the first time : Paul and his Jewish context --tSign of the new creation : Paul's aims and achievements.8 aVolume 1: This first volume in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God provides a historical, theological, and literary study of first-century Judaism and Christianity. Wright offers a preliminary discussion of the meaning of the word god within those cultures, as he explores the ways in which developing an understanding of those first-century cultures are of relevance for the modern world. Volume 2: In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it? Wright begins by showing how the questions posed by Albert Schweitzer a century ago remain central today. Then he sketches a profile of Jesus in terms of his prophetic praxis, his subversive stories, the symbols by which he reordered his world, and the answers he gave to the key questions that any world view must address. The examination of Jesus' aims and beliefs, argued on the basis of Jesus' actions and their accompanying riddles, is sure to stimulate heated response. Wright offers a provocative portrait of Jesus as Israel's Messiah who would share and bear the fate of the nation and would embody the long-promised return of Israel's God to Zion. Volume 3: Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question , which any historian must face, renowned New Testament scholar N. T. Wright focuses on the key question: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the early Christians mean when they said that Jesus of Nazareth had been raised from the dead? What can be said today about this belief? This book... sketches a map of ancient beliefs about life after death, in both the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. It then highlights the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum, while introducing several new mutations and sharper definitions. This, together with other features of early Christianity, forces the historian to read the Easter narratives in the gospels, not simply as late rationalizations of early Christian spirituality, but as accounts of two actual events: the empty tomb of Jesus and his 'appearances.' How do we explain these phenomena? The early Christians' answer was that Jesus had indeed been bodily raised from the dead; that was why they hailed him as the messianic 'son of God.' No modern historian has come up with a more convincing explanation. Facing this question, we are confronted to this day with the most central issues of worldview and theology. Volume 4: This highly anticipated two-book ...volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series...is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime's study, this landmark book pays a rich tribute to the breadth and depth of the apostle's vision, and offers an unparalleled wealth of detailed insights into his life, times, and enduring impact.Wright carefully explores the whole context of Paul's thought and activity Jewish, Greek and Roman, cultural, philosophical, religious, and imperial and shows how the apostle's worldview and theology enabled him to engage with the many-sided complexities of first-century life that his churches were facing. Wright also provides close and illuminating readings of the letters and other primary sources, along with critical insights into the major twists and turns of exegetical and theological debate in the vast secondary literature. The result is a rounded and profoundly compelling account of the man who became the world's first, and greatest, Christian theologian." -- Publisher descriptions.00aBible.pNew TestamentxTheology. 0aGodxBiblical teaching. 0aGod (Christianity)xHistory of doctrinesyEarly church, ca. 30-600. 0aChristianityxOrigin.02aNew Testament and the people of God.02aJesus and the victory of God.02aResurrection of the Son of God.02aPaul and the faithfulness of God.