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The concept behind
Broken Signposts is both simple and challenging, old and new. In the most recent of his many books, the Anglican theologian and biblical scholar N. T. Wright—formerly bishop of Durham, now a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews—takes us through seven universally preoccupying themes: justice, love, spirituality, beauty, freedom, truth and power.
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His premise is that each of these themes is a kind of signpost directing us toward some fundamentally important truth—the kind that philosophers, writers and artists all try to decode. But their attempts are necessarily flawed, because the only way to real understanding is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Unless we ground our thinking in that one perfect and universal source of knowledge, the signposts of our world cannot do more than point us vaguely along the right path. On their own, they are broken.