Frank: Your next book, How God Became King, releases in March. From the cover, it looks like a companion volume to Simply Jesus. In what ways is this upcoming book different from Simply Jesus?
N.T. Wright: The new book is a deliberate companion piece: SJ is about Jesus; this one’s about the gospels and the sort of story they think they’re telling. It starts with the challenge of the creed: there’s a big hole there between the virgin birth and the cross, but the gospels seem to think that stuff in the middle is hugely important. What happens when we implicitly trust the creed rather than the gospels? Of course, the creeds weren’t written as a syllabus for teaching, but they quickly became that…and we forget the kingdom of God! I then offer four ways of listening to the gospels, which, today, have either been forgotten or seriously distorted. When we get these in proper balance, we can “hear” the story the gospels are really telling – and then we can rediscover new ways of understanding the Creeds as well…
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