I was disappointed with this book and after a while started to feel I was wasting my time reading it. I like and agree with NT Wright's basic premise that the NT is not a collection of proof texts for the theological traditions of Christendom which have developed thereafter. Most particularly, even while much of it is addressed to Gentiles, it remains very strongly Jewish in background and character. But first of all, I find Wright's style pompous and tedious. After a while, it feels like you've been reading basically the same thing over and over again. Secondly, I find his demonstrations to be sketchy. A good example of this is his analysis of how Paul's message relates to imperial propaganda. Wright makes a good point when he points to the significance of the accusation that Paul says that there is another king than Caesar (Acts 17:7). He is insightful in showing how conflicting a vision of the world the gospel affirmed in the face of imperial propaganda. But his attempt to show that there are allusions to the imperial "gospel" in multiple places in Paul's epistle affirms much more than it demonstrates. For instance, he does not really address the fact that much of the language that Paul uses is staple biblical language and would have been at home in other periods whether or not there was something akin to the imperial cult.