![]() ![]() ![]() The last four chapters are practical applications and implications of the ideas presented earlier. The first four chapters of the book present the beliefs and historical setting in which Jesus lived and during which period of time the Christian Gospels were written. That is why the contemporary debates about Jesus are so important they are also debates about God himself.” This is the first reason historian Wright gives for his serious historical study of Jesus. ![]() We shall only discover whom the true and living God actually is if we take the risk of looking at Jesus himself. “Christianity has always said, with John 1:18, that nobody has ever seen God but that Jesus has revealed God. Was Jesus God? Was Jesus the promised, long-awaited Messiah? How did he view “the Kingdom of God?” Does the resurrection matter, and if it does, what did it mean to the people of Jesus’ time? How did Jesus view himself? ![]()
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