N.T. Wright is one of the world’s pre-eminent New Testament scholars. A former bishop of Durham and the author of more than 80 books, he has taught at Cambridge, McGill, St. Andrews and Oxford Universities. I spoke with Dr. Wright about the meaning of the incarnation, his faith journey and why he is a follower […]
N.T. Wright: Ephesians is blueprint for multiethnic church
Renowned biblical scholar N.T. Wright believes Ephesians is a book for this moment. To show that, he has written a new book on Ephesians, arguing the letter offers a radical vision for church unity that Western Christianity largely has missed. In The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God, he hopes […]
NT Wright: Western Christians have misread Heaven, the End Times, spiritual warfare
Many Christians in the West, N. T. Wright believes, have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith. Instead of seeing Christianity as the story of God renewing the whole cosmos — Heaven and Earth united — they have been taught to think of salvation primarily as a private escape plan: the soul […]
Religion News Service: N.T. Wright explains the world of the New Testament in new book
One God, One People, One Future
Leading scholars from around the world engage with key facets of N. T. Wright’s most important work, providing a window onto major debates and developments in New Testament studies in recent decades. These essays focus on N. T. Wright’s contribution to New Testament theology and interpretation over the past four decades. The structure is three-fold, […]
Updated Publications List 2018
Publications As at January 2018 Books (more scholarly works marked with *) 2018 Paul: A Biography. San Francisco: HarperOne; London: SPCK (forthcoming) 2018 The Bible for Everyone (with John Goldingay) (my translation of The New Testament for Everyone with Goldingay’s OT equivalent, with new short introductions to each section and book) 2017 Advent for Everyone: […]
Updated Publications List
Publications As at February 2017 Books (more scholarly works marked with *) 2016 Advent for Everyone: A Journey through Matthew. London: SPCK; Louisville: Westminster John Knox 2016 The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’ Crucifixion. San Francisco: HarperOne; London: SPCK 2016 God in Public. London: SPCK 2016 Justification: God’s Plan and […]
N. T. Wright: The Church Continues the Revolution Jesus Started
A foundational Christian belief is that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our sins. For many, the most important result of this is that believers go to heaven when they die. Bestselling author, scholar and bishop, N. T. Wright, thinks we’re missing a critical aspect of what Jesus accomplished on the Cross if we […]
A Reformed Perspective on the New Perspective
A Review Essay of Guy Prentiss Waters, Justification and the New Perspective: A Review and Response (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2004). Nicholas Perrin A story is told of an American tourist, who just having returned from his first trip to Europe, gathers his friends together to tell them of his travels. “Upon my word,” […]
N.T. Wright: A Westminster Seminary Perspective
(A slightly revised version of a post to the “Wrightsaid” List, January 5, 2004) Douglas J. Green, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Old Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA Recently, frustration has been expressed at the failure of certain professors at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) to express publicly their sympathy for the New Perspective in general […]
Some Reflections on Hermeneutics and Method
Nicholas Perrin I am grateful for the remarks made and questions posed in Guy Waters’s piece, “Rejoinder to Nicholas Perrin, ‘A Reformed Perspective on the New Perspective.’” The issues raised in Waters’s book and in the ensuing interchange engendered by my review are important ones. Some of these issues are, I think, especially important given […]