Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good, by Tom Wright
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At last! A new book by our most popular theologian written for anyone interested in popular theology - whether believer, agnostic or atheist. Confronts head-on the most common objections to belief Compelling answers to FAQs about the gospel: Why is it 'good news'? Who did Jesus think he was? And who is 'God', anyway? Written by a world-renowned scholar and communicator, hailed by Newsweek as 'the world's leading New Testament scholar' Ideal for all who want to reaffirm their faith, as well as finding more convincing ways of commending it to others 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.
Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good, by Tom Wright- Amazon Sales Rank: #147489 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Released on: 2015-03-19
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .47" w x 5.59" l, .33 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
About the Author Tom Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of over seventy books, including the 'For Everyone' guides to the New Testament and, most recently, Creation, Power and Truth, Finding God in the Psalms, The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Surprised by Scripture and Paul and the Faithfulness of God (all SPCK).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A call to arms for Christians to return to the absolute basics and start spreading the joy By A. I. McCulloch This isn't quite the book I'd expected it to be. Attending Gospel Halls throughout my childhood and teenage years and developing my faith in that atmosphere of intense, simplified, bare bones belief, the title of this caught my eye. Here I thought, would be a book that would take me back to the Gospels, to the literal Good News that they shared and to reflections on the Gospels.Well no, not quite. This book looks at not what Jesus' good news was, but far more how Paul, the passionate messenger of Christ put that message across to the first churches and how that message was spread. His was not a message dressed up in pomp and finery and obtuse theological argument, it was the simple news that Christ transforms lives, both now and eternity.The title of the book reminded me of one of the childhood songs we sang: 'Good news, good news, Christ died for me... if I believe.. I'm saved eternally'. Which is the message as we often receive it today, the emphasis on the death of our Lord and the prospect of eternal life, and often to the exclusion of everything else, shutting out reflection on how we actually incorporate the sharing of the joy of Christianity into our daily lives.Tom Wright points out how this wasn't how Paul would have put the message across. The stark visions of threats of hell and damnation unless one believes that formed the backbone of so much preaching and teaching were the total opposite to the message of light and joy that Paul focused on. Which was that the change had come and that as Christians they were now in the driving seat. God had put forward his Son and as Christians, they were now in a position to effect wonderous change and transform lives by spreading this good news .I'm no theologian and I did struggle to focus at times on what Tom Wright was saying. It wasn't as straightforward as I expected. I got what he was saying, I hope, but it wasn't the easy read I thought. Certainly a thought provoking one though and I'm glad I gave it the effort.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Flawed but partly helpful recasting of the Gospel By Mark Loughridge This book has a noble aim—to rescue the gospel from the confines of mere personal salvation from Hell. Instead Wright seeks to set the good news of forgiveness in the far grander, more epic news of the restoration of all things to their rightful order and rightful place under the rule of their rightful king.Along the way the way he takes aim at other caricatures of the gospel—the gospel is not good advice (Do better and you might get to Heaven), nor is it an optional extra (Jesus will add something to your life), nor is Jesus the good guy and God the Father an angry psychopath. He nails the idea that Heaven is going to be some ethereal existence, and underlines the Bibles teaching that what follows Jesus’ return is the full restoration of all creation. The section on the resurrection of Jesus itself, as you would expect from the foremost resurrection scholar is top notch.Thus far so good. I really enjoyed his setting of the gospel against its proper backdrop. And his illustration from Octavian’s victory over Mark Antony is one I have already borrowed! Lots of quotable nuggets in the book.The book is great at what is does say; the problem lies in what it doesn’t say, or in what it seems to skirt around. Despite a statement or two on p65 and 70 that the theme of Jesus dying in our place is prominent in the Bible, Wright treads worryingly lightly on the themes of wrath, judgment, and eternal punishment. True he rightly demonstrates that God’s wrath is the flip side of his love for all that is good, but throughout a book on the Good News he doesn’t deal with the fact that Jesus Christ bore our sins in his body on the tree, and there took in himself the punishment meted out by the Triune God due to my rebellion.All the other things are true—this then means that I can become part of the King’s victory and I can look forward to the new creation guaranteed by his resurrection—but at every key moment when I expected him to unpack the stunning news that the God who was angry with me actually bore that anger in himself, there is a curious silence. At times it seems as if the pronouncement of Jesus as King is enough to somehow mystically change people (p30). It’s as if evil as a disembodied force is the problem with the world, and that Jesus took evil into himself at the Cross, and triumphed—partly true, but it was also my sin that he took into himself, and the punishment due me. This note is repeatedly lacking. Wright does well to display the cosmic scale of the good news, but the book falls short in articulating the good news on a personal scale.The final chapter—a reading of the Lord’s Prayer in reverse seemed completely out of place, and the book could well have finished at the penultimate chapter.While there is much that is good in this book, it is what is left out that troubles me. Wright seems to have a problem with the concept of a God who gets angry at sin, and who has punishment for sinners, and a Cross that involves substitution. These, of course, are part of the bigger story of his grace and love, but they *are* part of the story and shouldn't be skipped over - other wise we lose the wonder that Paul had: "The Son of God loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2:20). He pays brief lip service to these things, but the their absence throughout the book betrays an unease with them. It’s almost as if he wishes to remodel God into an archetypal English gent.A book to read? I think there are better, clearer, more pressing introductions to the gospel. Three stars because of what it did say. It nearly got two because of the absences. I might even change it yet - Its okay.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. the good news about The Good News By mgolfanopoulos For the first part of my Christian life I attended churches that spoke about the Kingdom of God but without having a king and substituting self-reliance and self-help, social engineering, or some form of government program as god. Followed those experiences I participated in fellowships where God was worshiped as the King but a salvation culture was substituted for the Gospel and for God’s marvelous and ubiquitous Kingdom.Attempting to create a Kingdom culture without the power of God as King is hopeless just as is the futility of focusing only on salvation--important as that is. The Kingdom of God is more than a ticket for an eventual ride out of hell to some far-off place called heaven where those who have “accepted Jesus” hang-out for eternity. That may be part of the good news but hardly all of it. The good news is more, much more, than that!Bishop’s Wright’s work has pulled-back the curtains and let me see just what makes the good news such good news. He gently yet carefully and comprehensively explains what we have been feed in this modern age as the good news and the nourishment we’ve been missing. Because of this, Simply Good News is a must read for every believer and for anyone seriously exploring what the vital and real Christian faith is about.Any believer reading this book will come away blessed and rejoicing because they now understand the vastness and transformative power of the good news. Seekers will come away saying: “Now that’s the kind of faith and movement to which I can commit.”
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