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Paul de N T Wright

Paul

Editat de N T Wright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 2008

Remarcăm în Paul in Fresh Perspective o abordare care depășește exezeza biblică tradițională, propunând o perspectivă interdisciplinară ce îmbină istoria antică, sociologia religiilor și teologia sistematică. N.T. Wright nu se limitează la analiza textuală, ci reconstruiește universul mental al Apostolului Pavel, prezentându-l ca pe unul dintre cei mai influenți gânditori ai istoriei. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul argumentează că întâlnirea transformatoare cu Isus nu a fost doar un moment biografic, ci nucleul unei redefiniri radicale a speranțelor politice și sociale ale vremii. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă la Rediscovering Paul pentru cursurile de studii pauline, având avantajul unei sinteze mai concise, de doar 195 de pagini, care distilează cercetările recente într-un format accesibil fără a sacrifica rigoarea academică. Dacă în The New Testament in its World autorul oferea o panoramă vastă a contextului creștinismului timpuriu, aici focalizarea este chirurgicală, concentrându-se pe mecanismele interne ale gândirii lui Pavel. Spre deosebire de lucrări precum Paul and Jesus de David Wenham, care se concentrează pe continuitatea dintre cei doi, N.T. Wright pune accentul pe modul în care Pavel a „inventat” practic teologia creștină prin adaptarea tradițiilor iudaice la realitatea post-înviere. Stilul este precis și argumentat, evitând speculațiile nefondate și ancorând fiecare concluzie în datele oferite de scrisorile pauline și de cercetarea istorică contemporană.

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ISBN-13: 9780800663575
ISBN-10: 0800663578
Pagini: 195
Dimensiuni: 139 x 215 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Recomandăm această carte studenților la teologie și cercetătorilor care doresc o înțelegere nuanțată a perioadei apostolice. Cititorul câștigă o viziune clară asupra modului în care ideile lui Pavel au modelat civilizația occidentală. Este un instrument esențial pentru oricine dorește să exploreze legătura dintre contextul istoric al secolului I și fundamentele gândirii creștine, prezentată de unul dintre cei mai respectați cercetători ai Noului Testament.

Despre autor

N.T. Wright este profesor de Noul Testament și Creștinism Timpuriu la School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews, fiind recunoscut la nivel mondial drept unul dintre cei mai importanți cercetători ai Bibliei. Fost episcop de Durham în Biserica Angliei, acesta a predat timp de două decenii la universități de prestigiu precum Cambridge și Oxford. Opera sa vastă cuprinde atât lucrări academice de referință, cât și ghiduri spirituale accesibile, precum Lent for Everyone. Expertiza sa în contextul istoric al Noului Testament și în biografia apostolului Pavel îi conferă autoritatea de a reevalua critic izvoarele creștine timpurii.

Descriere scurtă

The letters of the Apostle Paul changed the world like no others before or since, and they continue to strike us afresh with their panoramic vision of human history and destiny. Preeminent New Testament scholar and churchman N. T. Wright here offers a fresh perspective on the Apostle Paul's content and convictions. Wright ranks Paul as one of the most powerful and seminal minds of the first or any century, endlessly engaging and perennially elusive. Yet, with recent research, Wright argues, we can now sketch with confidence a new and more nuanced picture of the Apostle and the radical way in which his encounter with Jesus redefined his life, his whole thought-world, his mission, and his expectations for a world made new in Christ. The result: a masterful, engaging, and enlightening portrait that situates Paul in his time and for our own.

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For centuries, Paul, the apostle who “saw the light on the Road to Damascus” and changed dramatically from zealous Pharisee persecutor to devoted follower of Jesus, has been one of the church’s most widely cited early teachers. Yet for leading New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop N. T. Wright, most Bible scholars and pastors have not fully grasped what Paul was actually doing and why.
In focusing on Paul’s letters and theology, Wright argues, they have, in short, overlooked the essence of the man’s life and the extreme unlikelihood of what he achieved. In response, Wright offers a new way of understanding one of the most famous Christian figures. Wright draws attention to Paul the man—the man who survived assassination attempts, imprisonments, and shipwrecks all while inventing new language and concepts for faithfully translating Jesus’s story for the Gentile world. 
In this pioneering new account, Wright celebrates Paul’s humanity, arguing that this is the best context for understanding him and ultimately for appreciating how he invented new paradigms for how we understand Jesus. “The problem,” Wright explains, “is that while Paul is central to any understanding of early Christianity, we cannot understand him without taking full account of the pre-Christian Jewish beliefs and hopes that he believed had been fulfilled in Jesus.” Only when we consider Paul in this manner can we move on to understanding how he led the way for Christianity to conquer the Roman world. 

Recenzii

“An enthralling journey into the mind of Paul by one of the great theologians of our time, a work full of insight, depth and generosity of understanding.”
“NT Wright takes the most controversial and influential author of scripture and does something remarkable: he humanizes Paul. I was hooked from the first page.”
“A compelling, erudite, and readable biography of the most seminal Christian theologian by one of today’s most celebrated Paul interpreters.”
“The most winsome feature is the way Wright paints Paul as a . . . three-dimensional, many-sided, complicated human being. Paul: A Biography is a bright, provocative, imaginative, and often brilliant book.”
“Paul is a compelling modern biography that reveals the apostle’s greater role in Christian history—as an inventor of new paradigms for how we understand Jesus and what he accomplished—and celebrates his stature as one of the most effective and influential intellectuals in human history.”
“In eloquent and inviting prose, one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars retells the story behind the story, the story of the Apostle Paul. A master teacher here communicates Paul in language every reader can understand.”
“The life of one of Christianity’s founders is told by renowned biblical scholar N.T. Wright, who believes that in focusing on Paul’s letters and theology, scholars and pastors have not considered Paul as a person and in the context of his times.”
“Written with the usual Wright combination of erudition, intuition, mature wit, and wisdom, Paul should serve us well as we seek to unlock the keys to the first great Christian theologian.”
“Wright’s excellent book not only brings Paul to life but places that life in the complex and overlapping array of Jewish and non-Jewish communities, all set within the Roman empire.”
“Brings alive not only Paul but also the communities where he formed churches and the religious ideas swirling around them. . . . This highly readable volume gives those interested in biblical history something to argue about and plenty to ponder.”
“Nobody who preaches on Paul or ever interested in Paul’s life and message will want to miss this treatment of him by N.T. Wright. It sheds fresh light on Paul’s ministry, theology and personhood, and it does so in a gripping and readable way.”
“Wright draws from a lifetime of study to construct this useful biography. Accessible and engrossing . . . Wright looks to the realities of what Paul dealt with . . . anxieties, broken relationships, beatings, imprisonments [revealing] a very human Paul. . . . An excellent introduction.”
“C. S. Lewis spoke of three artistically construed figures who jump off the page—Plato’s Socrates, Boswell’s Johnson, and the evangelists’ Jesus.  I am tempted to add a fourth candidate, having encountered Tom Wright’s careful, tender, and bracing enfleshment of the apostle Paul!”
“As lucid as it is salient, this book is a must-read for all readers of the New Testament and all interpreters of early Christianity.”
“Walking a fine line between presenting a fresh perspective in Pauline theology and reworking the Pauline corpus according to his own biblical theology, Wright’s work, although intended for the informed layperson, will spark much debate among scholars and students.”
“One of Wright’s best books . . . Eloquent and moving.”
“A very deep dive into Paul. Professor Wright has such a gift in taking truth and presenting it [so] it just comes alive. I can’t say enough about it. I love the book”
“The great N.T. Wright [offers] this grand biography of Paul. An exciting book.”
“In his monumental, meticulously detailed and elegant study, Wright presents a fascinating portrait of a man who went from persecuting Christians to being their biggest advocate.”
“A fresh look at the Jewish heritage and the essential place in Christian history of the man converted on the road to Damascus.”
“Substantive yet accessible, Paul provides a 432-page exploration of the Apostle’s beginnings, his missionary journeys, his struggles and passion, and much more.”
“Compelling . . . a magnificent biography worthy of a wide readership.”

Notă biografică

N. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He serves as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews as well as Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. Wright is the award-winning author of many books, including Paul: A Biography, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, The Day the Revolution Began, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, and Scripture and the Authority of God.