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Paul and the Puzzle of Freedom

Psalm 119.41–48; Galatians 5.13–18 sermon at morning worship, Central Presbyterian Church, Park Avenue, New York Professor N. T. Wright, St Andrews Thank you for your invitation and welcome. It’s very good to be here again and to share in your worship. I confess that after I had chosen the topic for this morning’s sermon, and […]

Glory, Word and Unity

Isaiah 55; John 17.20–end a sermon at the Ecumenical Vespers, Caravita Church, Rome 22 October 2008, 7 p.m. by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright Some people today say that the ecumenical movement has run out of steam. Others say that it is only just beginning. I prefer to take the second, more […]

Benefactors and Innovators

Ecclesiasticus 44.1–15 a sermon at the Commemoration of Benefactors, Emmanuel College, Cambridge November 22 2006, 6 pm by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright ‘Let us now praise famous men.’ Yes, indeed. But there is always a paradox about Commemorations. Looking back on a famous past slides easily into nostalgia for an imagined […]

Comfort, O Comfort My People

Isaiah 40.1–11; 2 Corinthians 1.3–11 a sermon at the Commissioning of Authorised Pastoral Assistants in the Cathedral of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert, Durham on July 20 2009 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright ‘Comfort, O Comfort my people, says your God.’ That matchless and stirring opening, the opening […]

Translation: Farewell to the Rapture

Adiós al Rapto (N.T. Wright, Bible Review, August 2001. Reproducido con permiso del autor) Traducido por Luis A. Jovel Poco sabía Pablo cómo sus metáforas coloridas para la segunda venida de Jesús se malinterpretarían dos milenios más tarde. La obsesión estadounidense con la segunda venida de Jesús – especialmente con las interpretaciones distorsionadas de ella […]

A sermon at the wedding of Alan Torrance and Margaret Leslie

His Sweet Art Psalm 103; Colossians 3.12-17 A sermon at the wedding of Alan Torrance and Margaret Leslie St Anne’s Church, Strathpeffer, July 25 2015 Rt Revd Prof N T Wright, St Mary’s College, St Andrews (with musical illustrations where necessary from Prof Jeremy Begbie) Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is […]

NOMAD 85: Tom Wright — The Man Behind the Theology

Tom Wright is unquestionably one of the most influential NT scholars of our generation. It’s hard to overestimate the influence he has had on the Church’s understanding of Jesus and Paul. But what makes this great man tick? We asked you what you’d like to know about the man behind the theology. As a result, we ended up […]

Publications List

2014 Paul and his Recent Interpreters 2013     Creation, Power and Truth Paul and the Faithfulness of God Pauline Perspectives The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential New Testament Wisdom for Everyone 2012 Twelve Months of Sundays, Years A, B & C: Biblical Meditations on the Christian Year Lent for Everyone: Mark New Testament […]

About N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright grew up in the north-east of England and studied Classics and Theology at Oxford, where he was ordained in 1975 and took his doctorate (on St Paul) in 1981, having served as a college chaplain, and taught New Testament, in both Oxford and Cambridge. He was Assistant Professor of New Testament at McGill […]

Paul and His Recent Interpreters

This companion volume to N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Pauline Perspectives is essential reading for all with a serious interest in Paul, the interpretation of his letters, his appropriation by subsequent thinkers, and his continuing significance today. In the course of this masterly survey, Wright asks searching questions of all of the major contributors […]

Speaking of Good and Evil

Originally published in Bible Review.  Reproduced by permission of the author. How can we gain a biblical understanding of the social and political events of our day? How should we speak of God?  Theologians have struggled for years with this question, wondering whether God should be described metaphorically, literally or, perhaps, some other way altogether.  In recent weeks, […]

Surprised by N. T. Wright

Interview by Jason Byassee The Bible scholar’s goal is to massively revise the way we talk about the Christian faith. By many accounts, he’s already succeeded. People who are asked to write about N. T. Wright may find they quickly run out of superlatives. He is the most prolific biblical scholar in a generation. Some […]

Videos and Discussion Guides from Fortress Press

Here are three 30-minute videos that will allow you to bring N. T. Wright directly to the students in your classroom. To assist your students, each video is accompanied by a discussion guide. To view the videos, visit Fortress Press.

Paul and the Faithfulness of God

This highly anticipated two-part fourth volume in N.T. Wright’s magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime’s study, this landmark volume pays a rich tribute to the breadth and […]

Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul 1978–2013

This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N.T. Wright’s most important articles on Paul and his letters over the last three decades. The book begins with Wright’s auspicious essay of 1978, when as a young, aspiring scholar, he gave the annual Tyndale lecture in Cambridge, and proposed, for […]

N. T. Wright Wants to Save the Best Worship Songs

Interview by Andrew Byers The scholar urges the church to stop neglecting Jesus’ prayer book. N. T. Wright wants to see today’s media-saturated church shaped anew by a form of worship and prayer that has shaped the people of God for centuries. In The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential (HarperOne) the churchman […]

With Justification

Book Review: Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision Reviewed by Ben Witherington It is never an easy thing to write a rebuttal book if you are genuinely a Christian person.  You keep hoping that people will stop misunderstanding what you have said and written, will think better of ad hominem attacks, and you keep trying the ‘turn […]

Kingdom Come: The Public Meaning of the Gospels

In his new book, The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis describes how as a young man growing up in an evangelical church, he never heard a sermon on the Sermon on the Mount. That telling personal observation reflects a phenomenon about which I have been increasingly concerned: that much evangelical Christianity on both sides of the Atlantic […]

New Testament Scholarship and Christian Discipleship

The Moule Memorial Lecture. Originally delivered on Thursday, June 5, 2008. Introduction Thank you for your welcome, and for the invitation to give this lecture, which of course makes me both sad and proud. Sad because Charlie’s death last autumn was not only a defining moment, the end of an era, but for me, as […]

Reason to Be Cheerful

When I was an undergraduate, I read a book called Clarity Is Not Enough. It challenged the prevailing linguistic philosophy which said less and less with more and more precision. Yes, we have to think and speak accurately, otherwise we go round in circles, but philosophy must be about something – life, meaning, ethics, truth. […]

Shipwreck and Kingdom: Acts and the Anglican Communion

Closing address to the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council When I heard that you had been studying Acts in your time together, my mind went, for some reason, to acronyms. I imagined myself coming to address the Anglican Communion Theological Society, or perhaps the Anglican Council for Tea and Sympathy, which goodness knows you […]

Paul in Different Perspectives

Delivered at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church (Monroe, Louisiana) Lecture 1: Starting Points and Opening Reflections Introduction Thank you for your warm welcome and generous hospitality. It is an enormous pleasure for Maggie and myself to be here in Monroe for the first time. I am particularly grateful to those who have worked very hard to […]

N.T. Wright: Anglican Report Is ‘Fireproofing the House’

Interview by Douglas LeBlanc Top theologian on Lambeth Commission talks about what happened behind the scenes, whether the report should have been tougher, and why it’s critical of some conservative bishops. N.T. Wright is the rare sort of theologian who attracts respect from both conservatives and liberals. He became Bishop of Durham in 2003, and for the […]

Freedom and Framework, Spirit and Truth: Recovering Biblical Worship.

Originally published in Studia Liturgica 2002, 32, 176–195. Reproduced by permission of the author. Introduction “Biblical worship” is a huge topic, and one on which I am not really qualified.  I am neither a liturgist, nor a liturgiologist.  I am simply a New Testament scholar working in a community whose daily life is structured around public and corporate worship, […]

Five Gospels but No Gospel: Jesus and the the Seminary

Originally published in Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, ed. Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans, Leiden: Brill, 1999, 83–120. Reproduced by permission of the author. Looking for Jesus People have been looking for Jesus for a long time, but never quite like this. The “Quest of the Historical Jesus” has been proceeding, in fits and starts, […]

Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire

Written in Reflections, vol. 2, 1998 If Paul’s answer to Caesar is the empire of Jesus, what is an empire under the rule of this new lord? How does Paul’s gospel line up with Caesar’s empire? I am honoured to be lecturing in this famous institution, and my wife and I are deeply grateful for the […]

The Most Dangerous Baby

How an infant in a cow shed overturns the brute force of Caesar. By the time Jesus was born, Augustus had already been monarch for a quarter of a century. King of kings, he ruled from Gibraltar to Jerusalem and from Britain to the Black Sea. He had done what no one had done for […]

Decodificando El Código Da Vinci

N.T. Wright Permítanme decir, primero de todo, que es un placer estar aquí en Seattle y cuán agradecidos estamos mi esposa y yo por su bienvenida, por la hospitalidad y por los que han trabajado duro para hacer posible este acontecimiento. Estoy excitado por el alto perfil dado aquí a la cuestión la cual me […]

Un Dios, un Señor, Un Pueblo

N.T. Wright Mi objetivo en este artículo, es examinar un tema que a menudo está marginado, pero que posiblemente esté tan cerca como cualquier otro del meollo de la teología de Pablo. Me refiero a la pregunta de la carne ofrecida a los ídolos, que trata en 1 Corintios 8-10. Mi argumento es, espero, muy […]

Evangelio y Teología en Gálatas

N.T. Wright La palabra “evangelio” ha tenido una carrera de altibajos en el curso de la historia Cristiana. Durante el primer siglo, como veremos, se podía referir tanto a un mensaje proclamado en voz audible como a un libro sobre Jesús de Nazaret. En tiempos más recientes se ha usado para indicar una particular forma […]

Paulo e César: uma Nova Leitura de Romanos

(Publicado originalmente em A Royal Priesthood: The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically, ed. C. Bartholemew, 2002, Carlisle: Paternoster, 173–193.) N. T. Wright Nós nos distanciamos rapidamente nos últimos anos da antiga separação, que era presumida e inserida na gama de estudos bíblicos no Ocidente, entre “religião” e “política”. Passamos a perceber que tentar […]

O Braço Nu de Deus

Isaías 52.7-10; João 1.1-14 um sermão para o Dia de Natal 2003 pelo Bispo de Durham, Dr. N. T. Wright “O Senhor desnudou seu braço diante dos olhos de todas as nações; e todos os confins da terra verão a salvação de nosso Deus.” Hoje eu quero destruir um mito e reacender uma paixão. Segundo […]