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Creation, Power and Truth: The Gospel in a World of Cultural Confusion is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Creation, Power and Truth, Tom Wright invites readers to consider the crucial ways in which the Christian gospel challenges and subverts the intellectual, moral, and political values that pervade contemporary culture. He asks searching questions about three defining characteristics of our time: neo-gnosticism, neo-imperialism, and postmodernity. Employing a robust trinitarian framework,...

reason why the early Christians appropriated and reinterpreted the Hebrew scriptures. They weren’t simply snatching texts away from Jewish interlocutors, but were determinedly understanding Jesus and Christian faith in terms of the creational monotheism of Genesis, the psalms and the prophets. What mattered to them, as of foundational importance, was God’s kingdom coming on earth as in heaven, with all the political and social implications that flowed from that. For this, they needed a strong doctrine
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