How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, by N. T. Wright. Harper One, 2016.
New Testament scholar N.T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the Scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection have opened up in our collective spiritual story, tracing a narrative from Eden, to Jesus, to today. Wright’s powerful re-reading of the Gospels helps
us re-align the focus of our spiritual beliefs, which have for too long been focused on the afterlife. Instead, the forgotten story of the Gospels reveals why we should understand that our real charge is to sustain and cooperating with God's kingdom here and now. Echoing the triumphs of Simply Christian and The Meaning of Jesus, Wright’s How God Became King is required reading for any Christian searching to understand their mission in the world today.
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Saint of the Week
St. Venantius Forunatus: (530-610): December 14.
In this saint we
celebrate the art of poetry. He was born in about 530 in Northern Italy but spent most of his life in France, after a visit to tile shrine of St Martin at Tours in 565. He settled in Poitiers, where he was to become Bishop, and acted as chaplain to the convent of the Holy Cross whose foundress was the remarkable convert-Christian princess, Radegund. His spiritual advice to fellow Christians took the form of letters but not infrequently of poetry as well. In 569 a relic of the True Cross was
received at Poitiers and this inspired St. Venantius to write some of his finest hymns: 'The royal banners forward go' and 'Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle' for Passiontide, and the processional 'Hail, festival day' for Easter. These hymns combine poetic beauty with great theological richness - something which can by no means be said of all hymns. He was a particular champion of the dignity of women, recognising the vital part they had played in sustaining
Christian values in the times of barbarian invasions. He died in about 610.
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