Seven Challenges That Shaped the New Testament - Hardcoverby F. Scott Spencer (Author) The New Testament writings reflect a sense of wrestling to understand what the world shattering events of Jesus's life, death, resurrection, and ascension mean in the rough and tumble of daily life in a conflicted world. In this book, a senior New Testament scholar investigates seven critical areas of tension historical, moral, political, material, social, perceptual, and temporal that shape the "big ideas" discussed and