History and Eschatology

Preface and Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

I: Natural Theology in Its Historical Contexts

1. The Fallen Shrine: Lisbon 1755 and the Triumph of Epicureanism

2. The Questioned Book: Critical Sabbath and the Gospels

II: History, Eschatology and Apocalyptic

3. The Shifting Sand: The Meanings of 'History'

4. The End of the World?: Eschatology and Apocalyptic in Historica Perspective

III: Jesus and Easter in the Jewish World

5. The Stone the Builders Rejected: Jesus, the Temple and the Kingdom

6. A New Creation: Resurrection and Epistemology

IV: The Peril and Promise of Natural Theology

7. Broken Signposts?: New Answers to the Right Questions

8. The Waiting Chalice: Natural Theology and the Missio Dei

Notes

Bibliography

N. T. (Tom) Wright is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews. Prior to that he was Bishop of Durham (2003-10), Canon Theologian of Westminster (2000–3), Dean of Lichfield (1994–99) and Fellow, Tutor and Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford (1986–93).

Professor Wright is the author of over eighty books, including The New Testament and the People of God (1992), Jesus and the Victory of God (1994), The Resurrection of the Son of God (2003), Scripture and the Authority of God (2005), Surprised by Hope (2007), Virtue Reborn (2010), How God Became King (2012), Paul and the Faithfulness of God (2013), Paul and His Recent Interpreters (2015), The Day the Revolution Began (2016), Paul: A biography (2018) and (with Michael F. Bird) The New Testament in its World (2019).