When I was a newly minted Christian in my 20s, just as green as a gourd, somebody introduced me to the writings of the late C.S. Lewis, the great British literary scholar who wrote extensively about faith.
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It seems an especially wise choice that in his book “Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World,” N.T. Wright uses his last chapter to discuss the signpost of power. Wright identifies seven signposts (justice, spirituality, love, beauty, freedom, truth, and power) that he believes all persons and all cultures seek to embrace and promote.
Wright thinks that in the contemporary world these signposts seem not to be working, seem to be broken. In his book, Wright suggests that the healing of those signposts can come about by people learning and embracing the truths St. John presents beautifully in his gospel. I think that Wright’s chapter on power is an illuminating and inspiring summary of many of the wonderful insights he has offered in earlier chapters.
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Reflecting back on my experience of my years of teaching philosophy, especially teaching about the mystery of the human person, I am very aware of how much my views of what it means to be a human person have changed. Lately because of what I am reading and teaching I am very aware of how much my view of freedom has changed.
I was especially interested to learn what N.T. Wright would say in his chapter on freedom in his new book Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World (New York: HarperOne, 2020, pp. 198, $27.99). Identifying freedom as one of seven signposts that seem to be “broken” in the contemporary world, Wright believes that in St. John’s gospel there are many wonderful insights that can help people become freer.