No one can accuse N.T. Wright of being a captive in the ivory towers of academia. Wright’s scholarship is well-known, but so is his devotion to the people in the pews. His new book Christians at the Cross: Finding Hope in the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus walks readers through Holy Week, elucidating the Passion narrative with Wright’s characteristic allusions and rich understanding of the biblical text.
Christians at the Cross is a series of sermons that Wright preached in 2007 at the Easington Colliery, a town in the midst of struggle for survival, a town that has seen tragedies in the past and whose present situation is marked by sorrow and longing. Christians at the Cross is not a theological treatise on the atonement; nor is it a full explanation of Easter. This slim volume seeks instead to bring the comfort of Jesus’ death and resurrection to a hurting culture.
If you are grieving this Lenten/Easter season, looking for hope in the midst of sorrow, comfort in the midst of despair, meaning in the midst of confusion and chaos, pick up Christians at the Cross. Wright leads us to the foot of the cross, where we bring our griefs and sorrows to the One who has borne them fully.
