Hearing the Message of Habakkuk: Living by Faith in a Violent World

by Christopher J. H. Wright

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2024

Overview

What does it mean to be faithful disciples in a violent and unjust world?

Habakkuk described an era of rampant moral and social evil among his own people, and a vision of the rapid rise of the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar. The world he described is familiar in so many eras of human history, including our own. The frightening international tensions, confusion about political alignments and alliances, fractured moral and religious traditions, and social dissolution and degradation cause the same fear and anxiety today as they did back then.

Confusing is a mild world for it—international, political, religious, moral confusion. It was (and still is) a world of national wickedness and international turmoil and violence, a world in which God appears to be asleep on his watch and yet claims to be “working a work” in Habakkuk’s day and ours.

Hearing the Message of Habakkuk walks through the questions the prophet asked God about injustice and the jaw-dropping answers he received. This popular-level exposition addresses:

God’s silence

God’s sovereignty

Living by faith

God’s judgement

Trusting God’s Word

What we learn from Habakkuk’s dialogue with God can help us today as we struggle to work out what it means to believe in God’s sovereignty, justice, and love, and to live as faithful disciples in an unjust world.

Key Features

• Walks through the questions the prophet asked God about injustice
• Explopres faithful discipleship
• Examines what we can learn from Habakkuk’s dialogue with God

Product Details

• Title: Hearing the Message of Habakkuk: Living by Faith in a Violent World
• Author: Christopher J. H. Wright
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 123
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. Habakkuk › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Habakkuk › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780310147510, 9780310147497, 9780310147503, 0310147484, 0310147492, 0310147506, 9780310147480, 0310147514
• Resource ID: LLS:HRNGMSSGVLNWRLD
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-20T18:50:35Z

About Christopher J. H. Wright

Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is international ministries director of the Langham Partnership, providing literature, scholarships, and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel, The Mission of God, Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit, Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament. An ordained priest in the Church of England, Chris spent five years teaching the Old Testament at Union Biblical Seminary in India, and thirteen years as academic dean and then principal of All Nations Christian College, an international training center for cross-cultural mission in England. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005-2011 and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010.