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honest!), a prophet named Agabus announces to a group of Christians in Antioch that a famine will ravage the entire world. Wright notes the response of the Christians: they do not attempt to lay blame, call for repentance, or assume that Jesus is returning soon. Rather, "They ask three simple questions: Who is going to be at special risk when this happens? What can we do to help? And who shall we send?" (p. 32). This response is not simply pragmatic, he observes; instead, it suggests that God responds to suffering in the world in and through God's people. In the lives of Jesus, the disciples, and the early church, Wright sees a common pattern: "The point is that God's kingdom is being launched on earth as in heaven, and the way it will happen is by God working through people of this sort" (p. 34). As Wright moves toward the end of the book, he again encourages readers to begin their response to the pandemic with lament. Following lament, he calls readers to action, to be God's "partners in the work of redemption and new creation" (p. 55). This response, he says, is the task of human beings in Genesis, and in Jesus's ministry as well. It follows that this task is the one to which re

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Author

Arthur M. Wright

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)