Christian Origins and the Question of God Reading Challenge
I have been a fan of N.T. Wright for quite a while now. I have read a number of his books but they have been the popular versions (and his New Testament for Everyone volumes) rather than the scholarly tomes that inspired them. I have long wanted to read his Christian Origins and the Question of God series, however, and even picked up used versions of Volumes 1 & 3. But I had to be honest with…
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I have been a fan of N.T. Wright for quite a while now. I have read a number of his books but they have been the popular versions (and his New Testament for Everyone volumes) rather than the scholarly tomes that inspired them. I have long wanted to read his Christian Origins and the Question of God series, however, and even picked up used versions of Volumes 1 & 3. [ 291 more words. ]
http://collectedmiscellany.com/…/christian-origins-and-the…/
The problem, as so often with doctrine, is that an idea that was once running wild in a historical narrative has been captured and caged in a theology zoo.
The viewing public gawps at the poor creature, wonders why it looks so confused and miserable, and has no idea how it would behave in its natural environment.
The hermeneutical problem is that our doctrines have grown so accustomed to captivity that they wouldn’t last five minutes if we returned them to the wild. So the best we can do is let them die out, shut down the zoos, and head off to the wilderness of the ancient narrative with our binoculars to see how these ideas worked in their original context. – Andrew Perriman
