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    Evil and the Justice of God

    By N. T. Wright and Tom Wright

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    A fascinating analysis and response to the fundamental questions that face any believer today.
    Sadly becoming daily more topical, this book explores all aspects of evil – our contemporary
    and theological understanding, and the ways in which evil presents itself in society
    today. Fully grounded in the bible, sparkling, erudite and provocative.
    Within the context of NT Wright’s other works, this book is similar in writing/reading level
    to The Challenge of Jesus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSPCK
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9780281063062
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    N. T. Wright

    N. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He serves as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews as well as Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. Wright is the award-winning author of many books, including Paul: A Biography, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, The Day the Revolution Began, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, and Scripture and the Authority of God.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent. Highly suggested.
    • 4/5
      Good, albeit brief, handling of the issue of evil. N.T. Wright does not dive into theories for the existence of evil... which he says we humans are probably not able to fully understand anyway... but rather... he gives a road map for how Christians should approach their lives in the midst of an evil and fallen world. It was another solid effort by N.T. Wright in helping us think clearly about a particularly difficult issue.
    • 5/5
      Yet another fantastic book by Wright, clearly explaining a very difficult and challenging topic.Wright provides a theologian's look at the question of the problem of evil. He begins by demonstrating the modern aversion to the question and the implications of that aversion when evil strikes. As he moves on to explain the issue of evil in the Old and New Testaments, he quite candidly admits that there is no ability to answer the question of the ultimate source of evil, and shows how the Bible also is not interested in that question. Instead, the Bible explains what God does about evil-- first, the promise embodied in Abraham and the chosen people, and ultimately, how God defeats evil through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Wright goes on to speak about how Christians are to live, heralding the Kingdom and its values, his inaugurated eschatology view expressed in other works, and specifically how it relates to the problem of evil. Believers are to work to defeat evil wherever it may express itself, both personally and corporately. Wright concludes by demonstrating how God ultimately resolves the problem of evil through forgiveness, explains what forgiveness is and is not, and therefore why Christians must be forgiving people if they are to live out the values of the new creation. An indispensable work for handling this very challenging issue.
    • 5/5
      One of the best theologians Of our time gives his look on one of the most difficult question in Christianity
    • 5/5
      A brilliant depiction of the character of God and how we are called through love to respond in the now. Practical and challenging to all who read
    • 4/5
      Wright tackles the age-old problem of evil (why does God allow evil to happen?), but with a little bit of a twist. Wright does not discuss natural evil, and there is little attempt to explain or justify personal evil. No wishy-washy explanations, such as the typical argument that God allows evil because it creates circumstances in which virtue can flourish. Rather, Wright focuses on what God is doing about evil. Remember: the prophets repeatedly promised a coming age when the world would be rid of evil. Can we even imagine such a world?First, if you’re tempted to pronounce judgment on God for all the evils in the world, you’re too late; God has already served his sentence on the cross. But the gospels tell us more; they insist that Jesus overcame evil on the cross. That is some strange theology, no matter how you approach it. How does succumbing to evil prove victorious over it, and why doesn’t it feel like evil has been conquered?The key to the whole topic is understanding the role of forgiveness. Both the forgiveness of God and our own forgiveness of others. The justice of God is not vengeance; it is granting us a measure of the forgiveness Jesus showed, so that the evil of others cannot hold us hostage. A perfect age is coming, but we cannot embrace it until we have outgrown our bitterness over what others have done to us, conquering evil in the same manner as Jesus.Dang, that’s deep. I really was hoping we could just hunt evil down and kill it. Good book, by the way, though not as scholarly as I’ve come to expect from Wright.