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Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N. T. Wright into Practice in the Local Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Tom Wright for Everyone summarizes the theology of Tom Wright around the significant topics of covenant, heaven, kingdom, and the resurrection. Stephen Kuhrt addresses the reticence of many evangelicals to engage with Wright’s historical positions, and also discusses the benefits of putting Wright’s theology into practice in his own parish church.

This is one of Wright’s most distinctive themes, emphasizing the assumption of most first-century Jews that Israel was still in a state of exile.32 Daniel 9 is an important text here, reflection upon its reference to the exile lasting 70 times 7 years being evident within several strands of first-century Judaism. While the Jewish people had returned from geographical exile in Babylon in 539 BC, their belief in a continuing state of exile was caused by the continued oppression of Israel by evil,
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