His argument goes like this: The calculation that assigns next year the number 2000 is fraught with problems, leaving any thought that the world will end when the new year dawns without historical or theological reason. Yet, those who calculated and adopted this calendar encoded in it their conviction that Jesus is Lord. This conviction is a problem to postmodern culture, as it was to modernity. Nevertheless, the appropriate way to celebrate...
The Millennium Myth: Hope for a Postmodern World
By N. T. Wright
WJKP. 1999. 128 pp. $12.95. 
ISBN 0-664-25841-7
Reviewed by Michael D. Bush
WJKP. 1999. 128 pp. $12.95.
ISBN 0-664-25841-7 While too much of the Christian world is coming off the rails in expectation of a divine cataclysm on Jan. 1, 2000, N. T. Wright offers us a challenge to celebrate the millennium as a Christian festival, rather than standing by passively or ex-citedly, waiting to see if the world will end. He issues the challenge in few words, with the clarity and good sense we have learned to expect from him in his New Testament scholarship.
