History and Eschatology is a dense but rewarding book based on NT Wright’s Gifford Lectures, in which Wright is attempting to redirect natural theology, bringing history and biblical exegesis to the questions of natural theology to see if that “might offer some fresh parameters within which the old questions would appear in a different light.” He hopes not only to redefine natural theology, but that “fresh thoughts about history might lead to fresh ideas about Jesus and by that route eventually to the God of creation; and that on the way we might learn something about the nature of knowledge itself.” Wright’s attempts to stretch the genre of natural theology involve what Brad East has described as “a curious and idiosyncratic account of natural theology” and an approach to it that will fail to satisfy some. For those willing to follow Wright’s arguments anyway, History and Eschatology may not offer traditional natural theology but it still offers some notable ideas.
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