Summary of N. T. Wright's Simply Jesus

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he was not the king that the crowd had expected. He was not like the monarchs of old who sat on their jeweled and ivory thrones, dispensing their justice and wisdom. He was weeping for the dream that was dying, and for the sword that would pierce his supporters to the soul.
#2 The question of who Jesus actually was is important for Christians. It is the question of what he did, what he said, and what he meant. It is, by implication, the question that any grown-up Christian faith must address.
#3 I realized that I could no longer put off confronting the hard questions about Jesus. I was preaching regularly, leading Confirmation classes, and organizing worship. I was finishing my doctorate and teaching undergraduates. I was facing the challenges of real life on several levels.
#4 The reason Jesus wasn’t the king people wanted him to be is that he was the true king, but they had become used to the ordinary, shabby, second-rate sort. He was coming to redefine kingship around his own work, mission, and fate.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Jérusalem
• General
• Christianity
• General officer

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669392545
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on N. T. Wright's Simply Jesus
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he was not the king that the crowd had expected. He was not like the monarchs of old who sat on their jeweled and ivory thrones, dispensing their justice and wisdom. He was weeping for the dream that was dying, and for the sword that would pierce his supporters to the soul.

#2

The question of who Jesus actually was is important for Christians. It is the question of what he did, what he said, and what he meant. It is, by implication, the question that any grown-up Christian faith must address.

#3

I realized that I could no longer put off confronting the hard questions about Jesus. I was preaching regularly, leading Confirmation classes, and organizing worship. I was finishing my doctorate and teaching undergraduates. I was facing the challenges of real life on several levels.

#4

The reason Jesus wasn’t the king people wanted him to be is that he was the true king, but they had become used to the ordinary, shabby, second-rate sort. He was coming to redefine kingship around his own work, mission, and fate.

#5

The question of Jesus, who he really was, what he really did, and what it means, remains important in every area of life. I hope that by looking at Jesus himself, we can gain a new perspective on everything else as well.

#6

The fact that we know so little about Jesus’s early life is proof that he was a figure of history. We know that he never traveled outside the Middle East, and that he never married or had children.

#7

Christians have always believed that Jesus is alive in the present and that he will play a crucial role in the eventual future toward which we are heading. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

#8

Jesus’s world was different from ours. People in his day and in his country thought and told stories differently, which made his message seem strange to them. We must understand how they viewed the world if Jesus’s message makes sense to us today.

#9

The second key puzzle is that Jesus’s God is strange to us. God is not simply God, but a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship. Jesus spoke and acted as if he was in charge, and his closest followers thought he was the king they had been waiting for.

#10

The idea that Jesus was in charge of his followers’ lives and actions was dangerous talk in his day, and it is still dangerous today. It is difficult to address the questions about Jesus, given the challenges of the three historical puzzles.

#11

The author’s own perfect storm is the response of people to the mention of Jesus. They will believe what they want to believe, and they will rationalize their beliefs, no matter what.

#12

The two winds of skepticism and conservatism have picked up extra energy from massive social, political, and cultural storms that have raged across the Western world over the last two or three hundred years. We oversimplify complex problems and bundle up very different social and political issues into two packages, and with a sigh of relief, we declare ourselves to be in favor of this package and against that one.

#13

The western wind, the current skepticism, is a powerful force that is trying to eliminate all religious faith. But there are millions of people around the world who have discovered a living, challenging, and healing presence in Jesus Christ.

#14

There are two myths that swirl around Christianity, the first being the high-pressure system of conservative Christianity. In this myth, a supernatural being called God has a supernatural son whom he sends, virgin-born, into our world to rescue people out of this world by dying in their place.

#15

The two myths of Christianity are that it was either a plain, blunt question of Did it happen or not. for the conservative Western church, or a matter of No, it didn’t really happen for the liberal church and the wider secular world.

#16

The second question people often ask is: Was Jesus the Son of God, or wasn’t he. For most people, the phrase son of God carries with it all the connotations of the first myth, in which the supernatural being swooped down to reveal secret truth, performed miracles to prove his divinity, and died a redemptive death.

#17

The third element in the perfect storm we face today when we talk about Jesus is the complexity of his world. His world was complex and dense, and it is difficult for historians to understand.

#18

The challenge of writing history about Jesus is that there are so many sources that were written after his life, all of which were written from a particular point of view. If we don’t make the effort to reconstruct the context in which what Jesus did and said made sense, we will assume that what he did and said makes sense in our own context.

#19

The world of first-century Palestinian Judaism was complex and confusing, and we must allow people in other times and places to be radically different from us. We must understand how worldviews work.

#20

The question of how to understand Jesus is a difficult one, and it is not possible to gain a fixed point from which to begin. The way you treat the sources will reflect the way you already understand Jesus, just as the way you understand Jesus will reflect the way you understand the sources.

#21

The story of Jesus’s life is a perfect storm of many different elements, all coming together at a single point in time in the first century. Jerusalem was the center of this storm, and it is there that we must go to understand Jesus.

#22

Rome was a republic until Julius Caesar, who was assassinated, was divinely adopted by the public. His successor, Octavian, took the title Caesar and became Augustus, which means majestic or worthy of honor.