| What is a worldview? | A set of assumptions that uses story and symbols to answer basic questions such as who are we? Or what is wrong with the world? |
| What does Wright believe writing off the Christian beliefs of Jesus is? | Uncritically accepting an enlightenment view of the world |
| What does Wright encourage us to do? | Start to examine our worldview by answering questions such as "who are we?", "why are we here?" |
| what else is the enlightenment worldview known as? | naive realism |
| What is the enlightenment world view? | A European intellectual movement emphasising reason over religious revelation and the superstition as the basis of knowledge |
| What is the worldview we find in the New Testament? | A worldview where history, faith, politics and spirituality are not separated from one another. |
| What does phenomenalism mean? | the doctrine that human knowledge is confined to or founded on the realities or appearances presented to the senses. |
| What are one of the reasons why we should question this world view? | the reaction of phenomenalism |
| What is critical realism? | things can be known outside of ourselves, though this knowledge is always filtered by our own point of view |
| What does the new testament present? | presents a worldview which is compelling: Jesus presents history as having
meaning and purpose. |
| What did Jesus do according to Wright? | Jesus reinterpreted ‘Messiah’ in a striking way to include a rejection of violence and the theme of a sacrificial death |
| How do we know Jesus was significant according to Wright? | The fact that the Jesus movement survived is itself evidence of the truth of Christian belief since movements of other ‘failed messiahs’ disbanded. |
| What type of Messiah was Jesus? | A messiah who gave his life |
| A Key quote from Wright? | “History, then, prevents faith from becoming fantasy. Faith prevents history becoming mere antiquarianism” |
