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Title: Great Book with Typical Flaw
Review: Until Bishop Wright finishes Volume 4 of his magnum opus, Christian Origins and the Question of God, we will have to do with his shorter monographs on Paul's thought. As always, the trenchant scholarship and sharp writing shines through.And, as always it seems, the same flaw appears whenever Wright tries to be relevant to the contemporary church: his ideas of Christian social justice are just the most shopwarn cliches of the most warmed over academic leftism imaginable. For example, he decries widespread consumer debt as creating "misery for millions" and profits for a "tiny minority." As if borrowers don't borrow because it is in their interest to do so, and as if lenders would lend without being paid a return for their trouble. To hold opinions like this means being totally ignorant of modern economics. It is one thing to take every thought captive for Christ - another to indulge foolishness. Remember Mark 7 - folly is sin.
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