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"I'm spiritual but not religious." It's a phrase that's often used to explain why people still feel that life must have some kind of transcendent meaning, even if they don't go to church.
But what does this "spirituality" consist of? In Spiritual and Religious N. T. Wright argues that, whether people realize it or not, they are often simply reverting to forms of ancient paganism that are very similar to those that confronted the earliest Christians.
With his characteristic verve and incisiveness, Wright traces the parallels between the worldviews of the first and twenty-first centuries, and shows how a better understanding of God as Trinity can breathe fresh life into our understanding and preaching of the gospel today.
He concludes this prophetic book with a call to contemporary Christians to make a clear choice:
"Are we to compromise with paganism, to assimilate, to water down the distinctives of Christian faith in order to make it more palatable? Are we to retreat into dualism, into a private 'spiritual' religion which will assure us of an other-worldly salvation but which will leave the powers of the present world unchallenged. . . ? Or are we to worship the God who is Father, Son and Spirit, and to find in that worship a renewed courage, a renewed sense of direction, and a renewed hope for the future?"
Contents
Preface vii
Introduction xi
Part 1: THE MODERN WORLD AND THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE
1 The kingdom and the church 3
2 Jesus' world in crisis 15
3 The road to paganism 27
4 The light of the world 35
5 The burning bush 48
6 The other gods were strong 58
7 Jesus' vindication and the task of the church 70
Part 2: ON BEING THE CHURCH FOR THE WORLD
8 Confronting the powers 83
9 Equipment for the task (1) 94
10 Equipment for the task (2) 106
11 New shrines for the true God (1) 116
12 New shrines for the true God (2) 123
13 New shrines for the true God (3) 136
14 The two-edged sword 149
15 The God we confess 157
Epilogue: the prayer of the Trinity 165
