Early Christian Letters for Everyone: James, Peter, John, and Judah

by N. T. Wright

Publishers:

SPCK; Westminster John Knox

, 2011

Overview

Writing in an accessible style, N. T. Wright opens up the wisdom of the letters of James, Peter, John, and Judah (Jude). A vital resource for every church and every Christian, these letters are full of clear, practical advice. Written for those new to the faith, they warn of the dangers and difficulties a young church community would face both within and without, while reveling in the delight of budding faith, hope, and life. Today, these letters are just as relevant as they were 2,000 years ago. They continue to help Christians live with genuine faith in a complex modern age.

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Key Features

• Examines the writings of James, Peter, John, and Judah
• Offers new translations of the text
• Discusses background information and modern text relevance
• Includes a glossary of words and phrases for further study

Product Details

• Title: Early Christian Letters for Everyone: James, Peter, John, and Judah
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: New Testament for Everyone
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 240

About N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright is a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at St. Andrews University. Previously, he was the bishop of Durham. He has researched, taught, and lectured on the New Testament at McGill, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has been named by Christianity Today a top theologian. He is best known for his scholarly contributions to the historical study of Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul. His work interacts with the positions of James Dunn, E. P. Sanders, Marcus Borg, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wright has written and lectured extensively around the world, authoring more than 40 books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and popular periodicals. He is best known for his Christian Origins and the Question of God series, of which three of the anticipated six volumes are finished.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The challenge of faith is the challenge not to be a wave.” (Page 3)

“Translating belief into action, even when it seems impossible or downright dangerous. That is the faith that matters. That is the faith that justifies (verse 24). That is the faith that saves (verse 14). This is near the heart of the message of James: the challenge to make sure that faith is the real thing, that it does what it says on the packet.” (Page 19)

“This is God’s purpose: to set people aside from other uses so that they can be signposts to this new reality, this new world.” (Page 50)

“The Christian faith grows directly out of, and must directly express, the belief that in Jesus the Messiah the one true God has revealed himself to be—love incarnate.” (Page 158)

“The meaning of that statement is striking: we don’t really know who ‘God’ is—until we look at Jesus. Now we see the meaning of our present statement in 1 John 4:12: people don’t really know who ‘God’ is—until they see it revealed in the life of Christians. Until, that is, ‘his love is completed in us’. What God launched decisively in Jesus, he wants to complete in and through us. As Jesus unveiled God before a surprised and unready world, so must we. Love is that important.” (Page 159)

Product Details

• Title: Early Christian Letters for Everyone: James, Peter, John and Judah
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: For Everyone Bible Study Guides
• Publishers: SPCK, Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
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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.