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My anxiety, rather, is this: in grasping the way in which Jesus’ programme cut against the normal social expectations of Mediterranean peasant culture, Crossan, like Mack (though not so blatantly), has radically and consistently underplayed the specifically Jewish dimension both of the culture itself and of Jesus’ agenda for it.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
The reason for our confusion is that we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a “moral” for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right.
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.
D. A. Carson • What Is the Gospel? (Foreword by D. A. Carson) (9Marks)
We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.
D. A. Carson • What Is the Gospel? (Foreword by D. A. Carson) (9Marks)
