KNOWING JESUS THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER
KNOWING JESUS THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Today the debate…
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KNOWING JESUS THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER
We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on.
Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church's Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to our contemporary pluralistic world? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? To answer these questions we need to know what story Jesus claimed for himself.
Christopher Wright is convinced that Jesus' own story is rooted in the story of Israel. In this revised and updated book he traces the life of Christ as it is illuminated by the Old Testament. And he describes God's design for Israel as it is fulfilled in the story of