God in Public: How The Bible Speaks Truth To Power Today

What has Christianity to do with power? Why must Christians act as the voice of the voiceless? How can speaking of God in public helo to create new structures of justice and peace? Those are the central questions running through Tom Wright's latest book. Here, he demonstrates the many ways in which faithful interpretation of scripture can throw fresh light on the great political and ethical problems of our day. Drawing on a collection of lectures that Tom Wright delivered from 1999 to 2015, God in Public brings together the message of Jesus – in its larger biblical context – and the challenges of the contemporary public and political worlds. Those new to Tom Wright will find this book an ideal introduction into his writings. In this book, Wright challenges the west’s response to 9/11 and then expands to discuss a more Jesus inspired way of approaching the public problems we find ourselves in, based on the following Jesus’ life and teachings.