{"id":2918,"date":"2006-04-20T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/feistily-yours.html"},"modified":"2006-04-20T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T08:28:06","slug":"feistily-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/feistily-yours.html","title":{"rendered":"Feistily Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Weigel has nice things to say about yours truly in a recent column<\/a>, as well as a recommendation:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve often recommended the work of Anglican exegete N.T. Wright as an antidote to this suspiciousness, and let me do so again: if there is one book to give a friend troubled by The Da Vinci Code and its portrait of the life of Jesus, it\u2019s Wright\u2019s The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (InterVarsity Press)<\/a>, in which impeccable, contemporary scholarship is deployed to defend the historicity of the Gospels, including the historicity of the resurrection. Based on a set of lectures Dr. Wright gave for evangelical leaders in the late 1990s, The Challenge of Jesus is accessible to any intelligent reader, and provides a far more fascinating account of the complexities of Jewish life and messianic expectation at the time of Jesus than anything to be found in Dan Brown\u2019s fevered imagination. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Weigel has nice things to say about yours truly in a recent column, as well as a recommendation: I\u2019ve often recommended the work of Anglican exegete N.T. 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