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This brief 3 page paper answers a few questions about the book "The Challenge of Jesus," including two items of information the book provided; the most helpful part of the book and one particularly important quotation from the work. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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questions about the book, including two items of information the book provided; the most helpful part of the book and one particularly important quotation from the work. Discussion Wright
is apparently a controversial figure in the field of theological scholarship. A man of strong personal opinions, Wright doesnt pull any punches. He accuses his opponents of "hopeless arrogance" (Wright
74) or dismisses them with the comment, "I find it totally incredible to suppose, as a good many New Testament scholars have done, that ..." (Wright 111). In addition, many
of his observations in this book are based on an earlier work, Jesus and the Victory of God, indicating perhaps a certain reluctance to consult anyone else; one reviewer says
that Wrights style is a "confident bludgeoning of his opponents" (Wansbrough 445). Another reviewer says that Wright has "has propounded a new orthodoxy that has caused many of his historical
colleagues to call him a fundamentalist, even as fundamentalists are calling him a compromised pseudo-liberal" (Bowser 122). Despite all this, the book is described as a "smooth" and attractive" work,
meaning that Dr. Wright presents his arguments in a convincing manner that makes them easy to understand (Wansbrough). Wrights book is not aimed at Biblical scholars, but at interested students
and lay persons; those he calls the "next generation of thinking Christians" (Wright). In order to reach these people, however, he asks them to throw out preconceived notions and "take
the risk of looking at Jesus himself" (Wright). That means the historical Jesus as well as the theological one, and appreciating him, in the words of the old saying, "warts
and all." Of course, this approach is difficult for those who dont want to consider Jesus as anything but wholly divine. But Wright argues that splitting history and faith led
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