The Way of the Lord
Tom Wright



I have just recently run across the book The Way of the Lord. This is a must read for anyone who has an interest in the Holy Land. Written by one of my favorite Authors N.T. Wright. Nicholas Thomas "Tom" Wright is a leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright but works such as What St Paul Really Said and The Way of the Lord, which are aimed at a more popular readership, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright. Among modern New Testament scholars, Wright is an important representative of more conservative Christian views. In this book Wright Vividly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the Holy Land. He explores the nature of pilgramage and explains not only what is to be seen but also the context of faith that makes these sites and the events associated with them profound. I am including an excerpt to give you a taste. 



"In all our pilgrimage, we begin by going back to our roots. When Christians go to the Holy Land today, we do not go because God is present there in a way in which he not in New York or Nottingham, Lichfield or London, in Melborne or Manchester. We go because the Holy Land is our place of roots, of beginnings; because the Lord whom we serve walked and talked in those places, laughed and wept and suffered in those places, and they carry a memory of him still, hard to describe or even to rationalize theologically, but yet of enormous power, Some have described the Land as in that sense a fifth Gospel, one which can bring the others into three-dimensional reality for us, so that we can both imagine Jesus by the lake, in the garden and on the cross, and also can sense his presence in new ways…not more or less valid then other ways, but for many a new dimension of their discipleship."