Small Faith, Great God
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Overview
In Small Faith, Great God, N. T. Wright encourages and challenges readers towards deeper understanding of the love and greatness of God, noting that “our faith may be small. [But] Jesus reveals to us the greatness of God and the certainty of his love.” Using vivid examples and accessible language, Wright provides rich theological insight and practical wisdom for growing in Christ. This work offers short chapters written in a lively style which explore key issues of belief and their practical outworking in daily life. Lively anecdotes and reflections backed by Wright’s deep biblical knowledge are presented in an easily digestible form. This revised version of his 1978 book has been updated and includes a new foreword.
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Key Features
- Contains concise chapters perfect for daily devotional reading
- Provides vivid biblical examples and lively discussion
- Offers practical wisdom and theological insight in a distilled, accessible format
Contents
- Part One: Faith in Great God
- Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor
- Power to the Faint
- Not by Sight
- The Burning Bush
- Holy Is the Lord
- Breakfast by the Shore
- To Die for the People
- God’s Foolish Gospel
- Part Two: Faith to Live and Love
- Citizens of Jerusalem
- Christian Hypocrites?
- The Runaway Slave
- When Friends Fall Out
- The Mothers’ Meeting
- Faith for a Wedding
- The Heart of the Matter
- Part Three: Faith to Walk in the Dark
- Bethlehem and the Barley Harvest
- The Rainbow and the Promise
- Faith before the Tomb
- Though Painful at Present
- Pie in the Sky?
Product Details
- Title: Small Faith, Great God
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: SPCK
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 128
About N. T. Wright
N. T. Wright, also commonly known as Tom 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. 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 four of the anticipated six volumes are finished.
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Top Highlights
“Faith is not the mysterious ability to sail through life with a secret key that unlocks all the doors. Faith is the willingness to think and act on the basis of what we know of God (which may be very little) and to trust him that he will not let us down.” (Page 34)
“The life of the Christian is not something that stands by itself or that props itself up with its own faith. At every point it is based on the character of God, on what God is like.” (Page 29)
“ our lives are to be lived in the light of the praise of heaven.” (Page 22)
“And what God requires of us is not (in the first instance) great faith. When the disciples said to Jesus, ‘Lord, increase our faith,’ Jesus said that all they needed was faith like a grain of mustard seed. It is not great faith we need: it is faith in a great God. Hence the title of this book. And this faith comes, like Abraham’s, through hearing the promises of God, believing them and acting on them.” (Page 38)
“Faith, you see, isn’t something useful or valuable in itself. Faith, as we were thinking in chapter two, is like a window, which exists not for its own sake but so that we can see something through it—and so that we can let light into the room. Faith is meaningless and useless unless it looks out on something specific.” (Page 37)
- Title: Small Faith, Great God
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Edition: Second Edition
- Publisher: SPCK
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Faith › Biblical teaching; Christian life › Anglican authors
- ISBNs: 9780281063659, 0281063656
- Resource ID: LLS:SMLLFTHGRTGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:02:58Z
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
2 ratings
Glenn Crouch
9/9/2023
This is a good easy to read book that takes you through out Scripture, examining Faith. In particular, looking that our faith - though small - is in a Great God. As I often say to my congregation, it is not the size of your faith that matters, rather in whom you place that faith. Needless to say I found this book quite encouraging and a worthwhile read. The 20 chapters work well as 20 daily devotional - or as part of your devotional time. Most of the chapters would also make a good small group Bible study. Highly recommended for Christians of all ages :)
Natan de Carvalho
5/5/2017
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