Challenge of Jesus

Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

By: N.T. Wright

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait.

The Challenge of Jesus poses a double-edged challenge: to grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within the Palestinian world of the first century, and to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.

©2000 N.T. Wright (P)2006 Christian Audio

The Cliff Notes of Jesus and The Victory of God

If you don't have the time to read Wright's more scholarly work Jesus and the Victory of God then The Challenge of Jesus contains all of the incredible ideas and insights that the larger work contains but in a much more accessible version.

I will listen to this book many times.

Prescient, Penetrating,

Listening to and reading this late 90s book in 2021, I recognize it as exactly what I need as a participant/observer/lover of God and all he created until True, Complete, Flourishing Heaven.

Life Changing

If you've never read Tom Wright - make this your introduction to this great pastor and teacher's work. it is a great introduction to his task of telling God's wonderful story!

Starts out slow, but ends well.

For me, the last couple chapters are worth listening to for the perspective on the gospel, how beautiful it is, and how it applies to our post modern world. The opening chapters are academic and only slightly helpful, so many may want to skip them.

Rich!

So rich, you will want to listen to it over and again, especially the final chapters.