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Index
Introduction
1 Jesus and the Victory of God Meets the Gospel of John Marianne Meye Thompson
N. T. Wright's Response
2 Knowing Jesus: Story, History and the Question of Truth Richard B. Hays
3 "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends": Jesus and the Justice of God Sylvia C. Keesmaat and Brian
4 Jesus' Eschatology and Kingdom Ethics: Ever the Twain Shall Meet Nicholas Perrin
5 Whence and Whither Historical Jesus Studies in the Life of the Church? N. T. Wright
6 Glimpsing the Glory: Paul s Gospel, Righteousness and the Beautiful Feet off. T Wright Edith M. Hu
7 The Shape of Things to Come? WrightAmidst Emerging Ecclesiologies Jeremy S. Begbie
8 Did St. Paul Go to Heaven When He Died? Markus Bockmuehl
9 Wrighting the Wrongs of the Reformation? The State of the Union with Christ in St. Paul and Protes
10 Whence and Whither Pauline Studies in the Life of the Church? N. T. Wright
Contributors
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Obviously it was not the weakness of the book, but rather its strong originality and in particular t
converting his personal animus into a kind of international lecture road show.2
Having mentioned several points of comparison between Albert Schweitzer and Tom Wright, I might now
The volume is broken down into two parts: the first half dealing with the historical Jesus and the s
In the next essay, "Knowing Jesus: Story, History and the Question of Truth," Richard Hays resumes a
"But today in addition to that neglect of thought there is also prevalent mistrust of it. The organi
JESUS FIND THE VICTORY OF GOD, N. T. WRIGHT's biggestbook on Jesus-although neither his only book on
Let us begin, then, with the role of the Gospel of John in JVG. To put not too fine a point on it, i
In this regard, JVG follows in the footsteps of virtually all studies of the historical Jesus sinc
Under Strauss's critical scrutiny, the historicity of material in all the Gospels was examined and
The narratives were dogmatically shaped, appealing frequently to supernatural causation for explan
Jesus and the Victory of God also gives us a portrait of the Synoptic Jesus; that is, the Jesus of t
First, "everyone knows that John is a very different sort of book to Luke, Matthew and Mark."7
But, second, when compared to a reconstructed Qsource, or to the gospels of Thomas or Peter, John
And, third, John's Gospel is "more obviously than the synoptic Gospels ... a story about Jesus and
"[John] gives the appearance of being written by someone who was a very close friend of Jesus, and w
John's Gospel thus proceeds differently from JVG, whose stated purpose is to "answer certain specifi
No wonder that Wright calls Reimarus "the great iconoclast."
12 Reimarus wants the real Jesus of history, the Jesus without dogma, without the church, Jesus wi
Reimarus challenged [Christian dogma] in the name of history.... I believe that Reimarus's question
Thus Wright takes up the challenge implicit in Reimarus's questions and work, demonstrating what Lea
Jesus and the Victory of God is an implicit debate with Reimarus. It takes Reimarus's questions as
Figure ofJesus, "The resurrection is not, strictly speaking, part of the story of the historical Jes
My explanation for why John plays little part in the book remains thin (JVG xvi), though not as thin
Jesus is a prophet who not only announced but enacted the kingdom of God, by which is meant the retu
Not surprisingly, then, in the passage from JVG that I quoted earlier, Wright suggests that we might
Yet, for Robinson, the "priority of John" does not pertain solely to the Gospel's chronology or othe
that it answers certain questions more explicitly than the other Gospels do, "Who then is this? What
What, in the end, made Jesus operate in this way, what energized his incorporating death into his mi
Wright attributes this understanding of Jesus' death to the earliest Christians.24
But what do we mean when we speak of "what Jesus was really like"? The Gospel of John itself clearly
In the last part of this paper, then, I want to turn to one key feature of Wright's presentation of
an isolated incident but rather the fitting climax to his challenge to the whole temple system. Inde
Although he did not "condemn" the temple and its worship,28
is to say, in John the entire saying about destruction has to do with Jesus' crucifixion and resurre
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