{"id":6414,"date":"2010-06-02T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/michael-horton-reviews-nt-wrig.html"},"modified":"2010-06-02T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:27:10","slug":"michael-horton-reviews-nt-wrig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/michael-horton-reviews-nt-wrig.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Horton Reviews N.T. Wright’s “After You Believe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a clip that gets at the core of Horton’s critique of NT Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>… from the review in CT<\/a><\/b>:<\/p>\n

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In spite of a few quibbles, I was impressed by this book’s popular presentation of themes that I have come to appreciate in Reformed theology. The eschatological emphasis on cosmic renewal (resurrection, not escape) as the impetus for our lives here and now, the emphasis on the church–in fact, just about everything in After You Believe<\/span> was a fresh way of exploring many familiar truths.<\/p>\n

Hence my surprise at the jarring, frequent caricatures of the Reformation, even when the author articulates long-standing emphases in that tradition. As in his other works, indictments of the Reformation rarely come with footnotes. Wright seems to read the Reformers through the distorted lens of liberal existentialists (Rudolf Bultmann and company) or evangelical pietism. Oddly, he blames the Reformation for the romantic, spontaneous, and existentialist view of the Christian life.<\/p>\n

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My review can be found here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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