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I will be 82 years old in two and a half months. Been in and out of church many times. At this point in my life I need a better understanding of Christianity. This was a good place to start.


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Simply Christian NT Wright 9780060507152 Books Reviews

I am 3/4 of the way through this book and I love it. Having grown up with a pretty rigid belief in the way a Christian is supposed to view God, church, and worshiping God, this was a fresh, new way of looking at Christianity and belief in Jesus. NT is great at opening ones eyes to how 1st century Christians viewed the idea of God, heaven and Jesus as the messiah and why it makes sense to at least give belief in God a chance.....great book! Highly recommend it.
The author creates a structured approach to providing evidence for Christianity and offers practical advice based upon his evidence. Stated early in the book, the structure includes the longing for justice, the quest for spirituality, the hunger for relationships, and the delight in beauty.

After reading this book, I realized how intuitive the points seemed in retrospect. They just made sense, and the structured approach lined everything up in favor of the Christian faith. This differs from my experience with Mere Christianity, where I needed to stop and think after each major point to understand CS Lewis' arguments. Although both books are often recommended for people interested in growing their faith, Simply Christian provides a simpler (no pun intended) starting point than Mere Christianity for the beginner seeking to learn.
Wow, another great book from N. T. Wright. This has to be the book of the year for 2006. This is a great book for anyone looking to defend or learn more about Christianity. He deals with two world views that are false throughout the book. One is pantheism or the idea that God is everywhere and in everything or is everything and the other view is deism. Deism is the idea that God created the world but stays distant to it and does not even dream of getting involved in it affairs. He sees the latter as being the idea of God behind left behind type of theology that sees to goal of Christianity as being getting people saved to get them out of this world. Wright's view makes better sense of God and the world. In Wright's view heaven overlaps and interlocks with Earth and is not distant from it and neither is God in everything. The world was created good and became distorted by Adam and Eve's or humanities disobedience. God went to work to restore his good creation by calling Abraham. His seed was to be the means by which the world was put back to rights. The story of the nation of Israel includes slavery, Exodus; judges and kings, tabernacles and Temples being built; disobedience through injustice and idoloatry and all kinds of uncleaness brought about exile. The prophets then came an promised return from Exile. Jesus brings the story of Israel to it climax and brings about New Creation through resurrection. Wright works through this story like nobody else can and then in he end acts as a pastor when it comes to coaching on such things as prayer, Bible reading, fellowship, and sacraments. This is a book that should be read by everyone. It is destined to be a classic.
N.T. Wright has an amazing way of teaching challenging subjects in easy to understand ways. He weaves analogy throughout the book, not just as examples to help a single illustration, but often to weave together the whole concept he's addressing. As an amateur theologian, I'm quite impressed with this work, what he teaches, and especially where he challenges the reader and the Church to follow Christ more deeply and authentically.
Just finished NT Wright's "Simply Christian" and I can't help but gush a little. Its a modern "Mere Christianity" and he is a living C.S. Lewis. I've sensed a fraying in our culture and church when it comes to theme and purpose. Perhaps we have overly diced our Bible and hinged our theologies on favorite fragments...somehow the themes and the hope is lost. Wright weaves the story back together. He's refreshingly fuzzy where life and the Bible get fuzzy and clear and vivid where our souls hunger and break. If you are content with your faith or lack there of don't read this book...otherwise buckle up and enjoy.
(P.S. highly recommend getting the kindle book and the audible book and listening and reading together as the app now flips the pages for you as you listen to the book. Very well read.)
O.T. Wright is the modern day version of the highly acclaimed Oxford and Cambridge professor, C.S. Lewis, a twentieth century theologian who wrote "Mere Christiananity" and the highly acclaimed "The Screwtape Letters." Wright spends a number of chapters cleverly setting up the true messages he wants to convey. At times, his thinking sounds anything but "simply" Christian but ultimately his book will challenge your process through your endeavor of being the person God wants you to become and helps you to "aha" moments.
In other reviews, this book is compared unfavorably to C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity." I beg to differ. I'll give you an example. I was visiting with a patient at the hospital where I serve as chaplain. She was unconscious for about a week at the beginning of her stay, so I talked with her husband almost every day. He considers himself "spiritual," but has some problems with Trinitarian theology. I had a hardbound copy of this book in my library. I gave it to him to read and review with me. He loved it! His problem with most churches is in their inability to appreciate what we would call the First and Third Articles of the Creed (God as Father and the Holy Spirit as our "comforter"). He likes both of these Articles! He just can't figure out where Jesus fits in. I believe this book has helped him to rethink his understanding of God. He may not be where I would like him to be, but he respects me for having the convictions of this book. Because of it's emphasis on the First and Third Articles, I think this is a great resource for teaching "spiritual" people in the 21st century why Christianity makes sense.
I will be 82 years old in two and a half months. Been in and out of church many times. At this point in my life I need a better understanding of Christianity. This was a good place to start.