New Testament scholar N. T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection have opened up in our collective spiritual story, tracing a narrative from Eden to Jesus to today. Wright's powerful rereading of the Gospels helps us realign the focus of our spiritual beliefs, which have for too long been focused on the afterlife. Instead, the forgotten story of the Gospels reveals why we should understand that our real charge is to sustain and cooperate with God's kingdom here and now.

Echoing the triumphs of Simply Christian and The Meaning of Jesus, Wright's How God Became King is required reading for any Christians searching to understand their mission in the world today.

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N. T. Wright
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1 March 2016
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Listening Length	9 hours and 30 minutes
Author	N. T. Wright
Narrator	James Langton
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Audible.com.au Release Date	01 March 2016
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01BACGPSM
Best Sellers Rank	29,593 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 41 in History of Christianity (Audible Books & Originals) 54 in Bible Study of Jesus, the Gospels & Acts 77 in New Testament Bible Study

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Brian Medway

Groundbreaking

Reviewed in Australia on 4 September 2019

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This is new territory for a lot of people. I found this to be among the very best of Wright's many volumes. It needs to be read more than once just to make sure you get what he is really saying rather than trying to fit what he says into previous paradigms.

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Woldis Benolam

A GOOD AND BAD BOOK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2021

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Reading all the positive comments in the promotional material I am almost disinclined from doing a review, convinced I have got it wrong about this book, and then I read a detailed review by two scholars for the Gospel Coalition and it confirmed my view. First let me be positive. This is a good book in that it makes me stop and think. I have been a minister for forty years and I wish I had read this sort of material years ago. Then also, the style flows in a non-specialised way, if a bit wordy and repetitive. I wonder is he like that in the pulpit but I have watched him being interviewed and he is- words flow without interruption.
All that makes it a good book, but it is also a bad book in that it diminishes the Christian gospel and places the theology of the Gospels in conflict with that of the early Church, notably that of Paul. His thesis is that the Church in its creeds and orthodox theology has left out the theology of the Kingdom found in the Gospels. Everyone from the creeds and Evangelicals and orthodox theology to Liberals, calling the individual to salvation through faith in the Saviour, are wrong according to him, and almost singularly Tom Wright has got it right. I don't like that: there is little humility about it. I don't accept his theory that Christ came to set up a theocracy here and now, with the inference that democracy is wrong. So much for the Gettysburg address! The kingdom of God is both present and future and our Lord told Pilate His kingdom was not of this world. As a result of this emphasis on the Kingdom here and now, I see little sign of the Gospel to the unbeliever. Indeed, it would seem Tom Wright is no longer an evangelical in the normal understanding of that term and what we have here is "another gospel". Perhaps it should be designated Wrightism but the footballer might object to that! How does the unbeliever enter the Kingdom? There is no difficulty about that and about marrying the theology of the Kingdom with Pauline theology. The substitutionary atonement at Calvary is the means of entry into the Kingdom for the unbeliever, through repentance and faith on the part of the individual. Then. as a new creature in Christ the individual goes into the world to fulfill Christ's great commission to spread the Kingdom, living out the life of the Kingdom, until the day when it is finally fully realised. It didn't need a book to say that.
So I say, read this book but think carefully. Don't be swept away by Tom Wright's words and look up the review mentioned above.

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Law Tech

Our God Reigns!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2017

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The way this book is written you would think that Tom Wright has just discovered something the rest of the church has failed to understand for a thousand years. However it is well understood in many Christian circles -particularly Pentecostal and charismatic - that when we say or sing, "Our God Reigns!" we do not just mean in heaven, or after some as yet to be realised post apocalyptic future, but right here right now. The purpose of the atonement is not pie in the sky when you die, but the full realisation on earth of Christ's victory over the powers that be and kingdom reign over all the earth. A purpose fully consistent with the Old Testament narrative. If this is news to you, then this is a good book to read.
What however this book is weaker on and perhaps never intended to address, is what this actually means for the life of the church. As this is on the recommended reading list of "Christians on the Left" it is obvious how they see it. If God's kingdom is to come on earth fully then clearly Christians have to be socially engaged. In more charismatic circles however "kingdom theology" can mean realising in your current circumstances your reign over life in Christ already realised from your place with him in heavenly places. There is much more and anyone in a non traditional church may be surprised at the suggestion that this is something new. If you have a more traditional background however, it may be a revelation.

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manchester maz

Would prefer it in English

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2017

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I found this quite irritating with its American spelling. It was a distraction and I don't see the need for it. The book itself was very repetitive but I never really got to grips with what he was trying to say, or maybe I just didn't read anything new. He seemed to be saying the whole world, apart from him, has read the Gospels incorrectly. That really doesn't seem possible. Some will always misunderstand or misinterpret, but everyone ? Worth reading but I didn't get much out of it unfortunately.

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Bookman

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2016

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Good book, although not life changing for me. I've had a lot of issues in my life at that time and was looking for help in various Christian literature; however, I have found little help if any at all.
Good explanation of the gospel according to NT Wright, which is closer to the Early Church Fathers than all kind of Evangelical/Reformed teachings which started with Luther and Calvin and are now widely popularised. The book is long-winded but that's NT Wright. Even though I read many books by NT Wright I still often am not sure what he believes and why he cannot be clear about it. Maybe he just like being so cryptic.

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Mr. Keith Alexander

The Full Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2013

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There is a wealth of background detail to set the scene. As ever, Tom Wright really places the subject in context and draws the reader into stripping out the old and no longer trustworthy picture conjured up by simply listening to the Bible being read in church. It challenges me to rethink my understanding of the historic Jesus and get a true picture of how everything works to bring one to a useful picture of the truth. There is no point in labouring on under wrong impressions that divert one from the truth. The dead wood is cut away to reveal what God was and is doing.

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