Critical Analysis Of Simply Jesus By N. T Wright

The book Mere Christianity was derived from a series of radio talks by C.S. Lewis during World War two. The book is divided into four other small books each one providing one of the overall tenants of Christianity within its chapters.

Furthermore, Sunday was constrained by an obsession to tell others how he had finally found inner peace and a more purposeful life. At first through lectures and then in sermons, he related how Jesus Christ gave him a new life of meaning, peace, and hope. This same gospel, he said, would similarly transform others. The evidence is overwhelmingly that it did.

In reading the first few chapters of Philip Yancey’s “The Jesus I Never Knew” many ideas and realizations that he has had in the past and present come to light. Throughout the first reading there are many questions that begin to be asked that make you wonder the true credibility of this book, but as I continued to read I found that he was in turn establishing credibility as to connect with his reader on a personal level. I hope to bring to light the main topics of the first few chapters and give my own reflections and opinions of Yancey’s writings.

Jesus Among Other Gods, a book written by Ravi K. Zacharias, provides a defense of the uniqueness of the Christian message, specifically that Jesus is God. Zacharias’s aim was not to write a straightforward treatise that attacked believers who espoused traditional religions. In fact, his approach was to evaluate seven questions that Jesus answered in unique ways, which no other pseudo-divine claimant could assert. In evaluating the questions, he demonstrated Jesus’ uniqueness and qualifications as the son of God, over and above the other contenders for the prophetic office. Using vignettes, anecdotes, quotes, excerpts, interview transcripts, and scriptures, Zacharias scrutinized religious philosophies concerning deities and prophets from

After reflecting on C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity with its complex themes and wording, I thought that reading N.T. Wright’s Simply Jesus would be an understandable breath of fresh air. However this book raised more questions in my mind and beliefs than Mere Christianity ever did. Wright asks a lot of poignant questions in the book in regards to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and in turn triggers even more questions in his readers. He captures the nature of a 21st century Christian perfectly. Like it or not we are a doubting group who question everything in our society whether that be politics, relationships, or religion.

N.T Wright writes Simply Jesus to help us understand Jesus through the cultural lens of that time. He divides his explanation into three sections: identifying what questions pertaining to Jesus are important to understanding Him, Going over what Jesus’ mission on Earth was, and giving examples and explanations of why all this matters.

In the late 1900s, in the open prairies and fields of the United States, an adventurous barnstormer ( an adventurous person who flies around offering fun flights for very little money) named Richard is living his dream. He sells 3 dollar rides that last ten minutes. As Richard is flying he sees a white and gold Travel Air 4000, a biplane, and felt the urge to land next to it. When he landed, he met Don Shimoda, the messiah. Don gives Richard a book called the Messiah’s Handbook (A book that if you have any questions you flip it to a random page and read.) and tells Richard that he is a messiah and how everything is and illusion. He

Ronald H. Nash approaches this book, Is Jesus the Only Savior, with historical, philosophical, and various worldviews to allow readers a broader sense of the subject. In a world, full of so many different views and religions, Nash set out to carry readers on a journey of foundational truths to prove that Jesus is the only savior. The book begins with Nash giving an overview of exclusivism, pluralism, and inclusivism.

I was first introduced to Jesus Christ through several Korean missionaries from America, who came to my orphanage in Russia one day. A bright green church, which is my favorite color to this day, was implanted right behind my orphanage and the people of the church went around inviting and encouraging people to join them on Sunday mornings. We were told there would be donuts and other food. Of course that would lure any orphan right off the bat. I among other children, joined the church on Sunday mornings. Maybe it was simply the donuts, but I felt accepted right away. Although I was very fond of the things we were told and taught, they appeared to be only stories to me. The stories did not become an entity or reached my heart until after I got adopted into a Christian family three years later.

The quest for the knowledge on the historical Jesus started as a protest against the traditional dogma of Christianity, but when the neutral historians joined the movement, all they saw was Jesus without features. Even when these scholars decided that other biblical figures such as John the evangelist, John the Baptist, Paul, and others were at home in a symbolic and richly storied world. Jesus himself

N.T. Wright the author of “The Challenge of Jesus” set out to prove a point. When studying the life, behavior, and ministry of Jesus one is to do so in the context in which he lived. If I had to form a thesis statement from this book it would be; too truly understand who Jesus was the student must view the natural behaviors of Jesus in the concept of Judaism. In result the student will be able to more accurately discover or even rediscover who Jesus was and still is today. Wright on pages 16-17 makes a statement that illuminated me to the idea of wanting ask new questions about Jesus; as my knowledge of Jesus becomes more in depth over the years. Wright speaks that the fact of the readers having their own opinion or concept of Jesus through

But in the age of the Enlightenment, scholars began concerning themselves with the historical validity of the subjects they studied. This began the first wave of historical Jesus scholarship. At this time, various scholars became intent on discovering the historical Jesus, and began writing various works, presented as “the life of Jesus.” But these writings suffered from an integral flaw, which has infected historical Jesus scholarship until today. Rather than being works of discovery, they were truly projects. Powell argues well, in his first chapter on the history of the historical Jesus movement, that a “life of Jesus” would “typically impose some grand scheme or hypothesis upon the material that allowed everything to be interpreted in accord with a consistent paradigm… [and] exclude material in the Gospels that did not fit with this paradigm…” (Powell, 12) Powell takes a

Jesus was the founder of Christianity. Christianity explains the messaage of Jesus. A Christian is a follower of Christ. Jesus Christ is a central figure of Christiantiy.

Many people have questions about a certain man. This man was named Jesus.Some people think his disciples stole his body when he died.Others think he was a crazy lunatic.

Jesus’ ministry tells about the life and teachings of Jesus. It is written in bible as stories and parables in gospels of the New Testament. The ministry of Jesus began when Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, starting around AD 27-29. It ended AD 30-36 in Jerusalem following the events of the Last Supper. Early Galilean events started when Jesus had gone back to Galilee after he was baptized by John the Baptist.