Paul: In Fresh Perspective

"For me," says N.T.Wright, "there has been no more stimulating exercise, for the mind, the heart, the imagination and the spirit, than trying to think Paul's thoughts after him and constantly to be stirred up to fresh glimpses of God's ways and purposes with the world and with us strange human creatures." Wright's accessible new volume, built on his Cambridge University Hulsean Lectures of 2004, takes a fresh look at Paul in light of recent understandings of his Jewish roots, his attitude toward the Roman Empire, and his unique reframing of Jewish symbols in relation to his experience of the risen Christ. Then Wright attempts a short systematic account of the main theological contours of Paul's thought and its pertinence for the church today.

Part One Themes 1. Paul's World, Paul's Legacy 2. Creation and Covenant 3.Messiah and Apocalyptic 4. Gospel and Empire

Part Two Structures 5. Rethinking God 6. Reworking God's People 7. Reimagining God's Future 8. Paul, Jesus, and the Task of the Church

• Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
• The New Testament in Antiquity: A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Context
• Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• Paul: A Biography
• Paul and the Faithfulness of God
• The Letters of Paul, Sixth Edition: Conversations in Context
• Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness
• What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?
• The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is