N.T. Wright has written an article for The Times Literary Supplement reviewing Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Pope Benedict XVI; Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian’s Account of His Life and Teaching by Maurice Casey; and A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus: Reading the Gospels on the Ground by Bruce N. Risk that can be accessed here: “The Pope’s Life of Jesus”.
Wright classifies these three books on Jesus as “pre-modern”, “modern”, and “post-modern” in approach. While this may be a simplified classification system it is worth considering how these three approaches to the historical Jesus collide and collaborate.
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“First, all stress (against one recent strand of opinion) that Jesus and his followers were steeped in the Jewish Scriptures, and understood what they were doing in relation to the intricate web of meaning thereby available.”
This spread a big, wide grin across my face.
I wonder what Pope Benedict XVI would make of Wright’s new book and his general approach. Wright is without doubt one of the most imaginative theologians I have read but you cannot just throw paint against the wall as he often does in his books without spelling out what one effectively means. His paint brush mind too often gets the better of the pen of his intellect at the expense of a more measured and less immediately exciting picture of the study of Christianity. Is Wright’s recent emphasis on theocracy pre-modern, modern, or post-modern and how does his talk of theocracy actually help the Church in the here and now? He never fleshes any of this out in his books. This I believe is what Father Richard John Neuhaus was getting at when he took Wright to task a few years ago on First Things. I do think that the Pope would agree with much of what Wright has written over the years but that he would also see in Wright the surrealistic tendencies of many of the theologians he has dealt with throughout his long career who perhaps need a heavy dose of St Augustine to calm and stabilise their minds.