Summary of N. T. Wright's Simply Christian

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#1 We have a sense that justice itself slips through our fingers. Sometimes it works, but often it doesn’t. The world is full of injustice, and we wonder why things aren’t working out the way we want them to.

#2 We know what we should do, but we don’t always do it. We all share a passion for justice, but we still can’t seem to get much closer to it than people did in the most ancient societies we can discover.

#3 The last 50 years have been some of the most morally sensitive times in recorded history. People care about the places where the world needs fixing, and they are passionate about putting things right. But we can’t seem to stop injustice from happening.

#4 The world is becoming increasingly materialistic and capitalist. Meanwhile, people are becoming more and more unhappy at home. The gentle art of being gentle and forgiving has gone out of style, and people are demanding their rights so loudly that they are destroying one of the most basic rights: the right to have a peaceful, stable, and caring home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822520707

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We have a sense that justice itself slips through our fingers. Sometimes it works, but often it doesn’t. The world is full of injustice, and we wonder why things aren’t working out the way we want them to.

#2

We know what we should do, but we don’t always do it. We all share a passion for justice, but we still can’t seem to get much closer to it than people did in the most ancient societies we can discover.

#3

The last 50 years have been some of the most morally sensitive times in recorded history. People care about the places where the world needs fixing, and they are passionate about putting things right. But we can’t seem to stop injustice from happening.

#4

The world is becoming increasingly materialistic and capitalist. Meanwhile, people are becoming more and more unhappy at home. The gentle art of being gentle and forgiving has gone out of style, and people are demanding their rights so loudly that they are destroying one of the most basic rights: the right to have a peaceful, stable, and caring home.

#5

There are three basic ways to explain the sense of the echo of a voice, the call to justice, and the dream of a world put right. We can say that it is a dream, a projection of childish fantasies, or that the dream is of a different world altogether, a world where we really belong.

#6

Christians believe that in Jesus of Nazareth, the voice they thought they heard became human and lived and died as one of them. Christians also believe that Jesus embodied the Jewish passion for justice, and that what he did set in motion the creator’s plan to rescue the world and put it back to rights.

#7

The Christian faith claims