pHow can we know about God That question increasingly bothered scientists and philosophers in the modern period as they chipped away at previously imagined certainties. They refused to take on trust the special revelation of the Christian Bible, trying instead to argue up to God from the natural world. That is the theme of the Gifford Lectures, inaugurated over 130 years ago.ppThis natural theology has usually bracketed out the Bible and Jesus--and with them, usually, the scholars who study them.pp iHistory and Eschatology Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theologyi represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann's dehistoricized approach, N. T. Wright argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being--part of the natural world--there is no reason the historical Jesus should be off-limits. What would happen if we brought him