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In Creation, Power and Truth, Tom Wright invites readers to consider the crucial ways in which the Christian gospel challenges and subverts the intellectual, moral, and political values that pervade contemporary culture. He asks searching questions about three defining characteristics of our time: neo-gnosticism, neo-imperialism, and postmodernity.
Employing a robust trinitarian framework, Wright looks afresh at key elements of the biblical story while drawing out new and unexpected connections between ancient and modern worldviews. The result is a vigorous critique of common cultural assumptions and controlling narratives, past and present. Creation, Power and Truth is a compelling read for all who want to hear, speak, and live the gospel of Christ in a world of cultural confusion.
“If the outside world, including my own body in its male or female particularity, are not the good creation of a good and wise God, but rather the inessentials made by a blind and stupid creator, and if instead my inner ‘experience’ is what really counts, then I not only can but must be true to the spark of light, and indeed of desire, which I find most deeply within myself, even if it goes contrary to the apparent order of creation, the norms of traditional society, and the teaching of the Bible and the church.” (Page 12)
“Dan Brown has been saying things people in our day want to hear so badly that they are prepared to swallow ridiculous and unhistorical proposals in large quantity as long as they get the worldview they want.” (Page 5)
“As Carl Jung famously said, ‘Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens’. The result, exactly in line with ancient Gnosticism, is that the real locus of authority is neither in the creator God, nor in the world that he made, nor in the Bible, nor even in Jesus, but in oneself and one’s own ‘experience’.” (Pages 15–16)
“there is the modern self-description: the Enlightenment. We are the enlightened ones,” (Page 7)
“The three challenges are the contemporary versions of Gnosticism and imperialism, and then the apparently new (but in fact very old) phenomenon known as postmodernism.” (Page 3)
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