Greenstein’s Job is a bold, highly original challenge to centuries, if not millenniums, of scholarship and theology. It is a no-holds-barred assertion of a new way of looking at Job, the honest, upright gentile who, in the biblical book, is afflicted with waves of misery from God and asks the Deity: Why me?
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Over 4k of Wright for less than $40? Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. However, therein lies the rub. If you read all five books that is 4,145 pages. Just the 4 volumes is 3739. That is a lot of reading. And this is not light reading by any stretch of the imagination.
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Anyone with an interest in Cockburn and his music will want to read Rumors of Glory. Anyone interested in the interplay between life, art, music, and politics would also find this memoir engaging and insightful. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Anyone with an interest in Cockburn and his music will want to read Rumors of Glory. Anyone interested in the interplay between life, art, music, and politics would also find this memoir engaging and insightful. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Wright wants to use what historical research might teach us, and read scripture as its authors intended rather than with the philosophical assumptions of the modern age. He seeks to navigate between the fundamentalism of the right and the vague spiritualism of the left.
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If you are looking for a book that seeks to highlight the awesome holiness and majesty of God and yet connect that to his infinite love and pursuit of His people you will enjoy this book. That said, I think the story of scripture is a bit more complicated than what is presented here; but perhaps that is asking too much of a book of this nature.
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If you are interested in a creative and well intentioned attempt to place the life of Jesus into the language and culture of today, you will enjoy this book. But if, like me, you are looking for something a little more ambitious or challenging you might be disappointed.
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If you are interested in a creative and well intentioned attempt to place the life of Jesus into the language and culture of today, you will enjoy this book. But if, like me, you are looking for something a little more ambitious or challenging you might be disappointed.
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