Advent for Everyone: A Journey through Luke
Overview
Join Tom Wright on a journey through Luke, as he explores the Gospel themes of encouragement, renewal, justice and celebration. 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.
Top Highlights
“Every time we relax and think we’ve really understood him, he will be up ahead, or perhaps staying behind while we go on without thinking. Discipleship always involves the unexpected.” (Page 8)
“Underneath it all is a celebration of God. God has taken the initiative—God the Lord, the saviour, the Powerful One, the Holy One, the Merciful One, the Faithful One. God is the ultimate reason to celebrate.” (Page 89)
“The point Luke is making is clear. The birth of this little boy is the beginning of a confrontation between the kingdom of God—in all its apparent weakness, insignificance and vulnerability—and the kingdoms of the world. Augustus never heard of Jesus of Nazareth. But within a century or so his successors in Rome had not only heard of him; they were taking steps to obliterate his followers. Within just over three centuries the emperor himself became a Christian. When you see the manger on a card, or in church, don’t stop at the crib. See what it’s pointing to. It is pointing to the explosive truth that the baby lying there is already being spoken of as the true king of the world.” (Page 98)
“Almost every word is a biblical quotation such as Mary would have known from childhood. Much of it echoes the song of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2, the song which celebrated the birth of Samuel and all that God was going to do through him. Now these two mothers-to-be celebrate together what God is going to do through their sons, John and Jesus.” (Page 88)
“this season isn’t just about getting ready for Jesus to be born. It’s about getting ready for Jesus to come back” (Page xii)
- Title: Advent for Everyone: A Journey through Luke
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Series: Advent for Everyone
- Publisher: SPCK
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Advent › Meditations; Bible. N.T. Luke › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780281079674, 9780281079681, 9780281076215, 9780281078387, 0281079676, 0281079684, 0281076219, 0281078386
- Resource ID: LLS:ADVENT63LU
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-03T20:18:26Z
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.
Reviews
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Jonathan A.
11/30/2021
I was hoping for reflections specifically related to advent, but it turns out that it's just a rearrangement of Wright's sections from "Luke For Everyone." If you already have that, you can just follow the daily Revised Common Lectionary readings from Luke and go to the corresponding section in "Luke For Everyone." The only difference is that some sections are cut off short if the passage in Luke For Everyone was longer than the lectionary reading, and also each reading ends with a question for reflection. I felt a little misled since the title makes it seem like there will be advent-specific reflections. A convenient repackaging for those that don't already have the other title, but disappointing if you do have "Luke For Everyone" already. It's a shame because "Lent for Everyone: Luke Year C" seems to have had fresh devotionals from Tom, at least the first week I looked through did not come from "Luke For Everyone." It seems for this advent book (9 years after the Lent one) the publisher wanted something to sell without having to get new content.