![]() ![]() ![]() Wright hopes to help readers to avoid “the false antithesis of fundamentalism and liberalism, of left and right and all the rest of it,” he told a packed sanctuary at an event promoting the book Tuesday (Nov. As if the book’s nearly 1,000 pages aren’t enough, there’s also a workbook and a series of lectures - available online or on DVD - filmed in such locations as Jerusalem and Rome. The book is meant not just for students getting an introduction to the New Testament, but for any Christian feeling stuck reading Scripture, said Wright. Bird - is “ The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians.” ![]() The latest - co-authored with fellow scholar Michael F. Andrews in Scotland, is author more than 80 popular and academic books about Christianity and the Bible. Wright, a retired Anglican bishop and now chair of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Wright speaks at Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. ![]()
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