This is the book version of the Gifford Lectures NT Wright gave in 2018 and which are the subject of this thread.
- 2019
- N. T. Wright
- History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology
- Baylor University Press
- Link
- History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann’s dehistoricized approach, N. T. Wright argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being—part of the “natural world”—there is no reason the historical Jesus should be off-limits. What would happen if we brought him back into the discussion? What, in particular, might “history” and “eschatology” really mean? And what might that say about “knowledge” itself?