Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Now Reading...



I'm currently on a bit of an N.T. Wright roll. Yesterday I began reading his new book Simply Christian : Why Christianity Makes Sense. N.T. Wright is one of best Christian scholars today. I read section one of the book. It's quite like C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity in that it appeals to what Wright calls "echoes" of a Voice that seems to be giving us what Lewis called "clues to the meaning of the universe." Readers of Lewis's MC might remember famous quotes like this: "Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it." And this: "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this earth can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." Wright's echoes of "justice," "spirituality," "relationships," and "beauty" are "Lewisian." It remains for me to see how Platonic (like Lewis) they are. Wright's book is getting some very good reviews. See, e.g., this one at The Wichita Eagle. And check out the blurbs on the back cover of the book.