Advent for Everyone: A Journey through Matthew

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2016

Overview

Join Tom Wright on a journey into the heart of Matthew, as he explores the Gospel themes of watching, repenting, healing and loving. Within each of these themes, Wright offers daily readings and meditations for a week, beginning with the Sunday reading in the Revised Common Lectionary, and ending with stimulating questions for personal reflection or group discussion.

Contents

Top Highlights

“We too are called to be faithful, to hold on and not be alarmed. We too may be called to live through troubled times and to last out to the end. We too may see the destruction of cherished and beautiful symbols. Our calling then is to hold on to Jesus himself, to continue to trust him, to believe that the one who was vindicated by God in the first century will one day be vindicated before the whole world. We too are called to live with the birth pangs of God’s new age, and to trust that in his good time the new world will be born.” (Pages 13–14)

“On the one hand, a great many readers have seen here a warning to Christians to be ready for the second coming of Jesus” (Page 2)

“We who live after Calvary and Easter know that God did indeed act suddenly and dramatically at that moment. When today we long for God to act, to put the world to rights, we must remind ourselves that he has already done so, and that what we are now awaiting is the full outworking of those events. We wait with patience, not like people in a dark room wondering if anyone will ever come with a lighted candle, but like people in early morning who know that the sun has arisen and are now watching for the full brightness of midday.” (Pages 8–9)

“Going through the motions of baptism wasn’t enough. Real repentance meant a complete and lasting change of heart and life. That was the only way to get the road ready for the coming king.” (Page 34)

“Third, it will divide families and work colleagues down the middle: ‘One will be taken and one left.’” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: Advent for Everyone: A Journey through Matthew
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: Advent for Everyone
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Advent › Meditations; Bible. N.T. Matthew › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780281076215, 9780281076222, 9780281078387, 9780281079674, 0281076219, 0281076227, 0281078386, 0281079676
• Resource ID: LLS:ADVENT61MT
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-03T20:17:07Z

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians. 

Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.