Tag: N. T. Wright
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Theology in Advent Hymns and Carols
Christmas Day, I wrote about my appreciation for O Come, Emmanuel, because I think it captures the biblical story better than most Advent songs. Jeffrey Barbeau has some good thoughts in his humorously titled Don’t Let N. T. Wright Steal Christmas! Peter Leithart, remarking on the trendsetting biblical criticism of N. T. Wright, has questioned…
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What Do You Mean by ‘Literal’? (N. T. Wright)
Science and the Sacred: What Do You Mean by ‘Literal’? Great piece by N. T. Wright. It will literally blow you away. 😉
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Jesus as Rabbi: Ken Bailey vs. Tom Wright
What was the nature of Jesus' preparation for ministry? Was Jesus a rabbi who received intensive training in a learning community, or was he a prophet who told compelling stories over and over that were burned into the memories of his hearers? Kenneth Bailey writes: In Jesus’ day, across the villages of Galilee and Judea,…
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What Story Do We Live In?
I recently went back and read N. T. Wright’s The New Testament and the People of God. Wright maintains that the Christian “story” responds to four questions. (1) Who are we? We are humans, made in the image of the creator; we have responsibilities that come with this status. We are not fundamentally determined by…
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N. T. Wright Project
"A Collaborative Study on the Work of Tom Wright." Rarely in the course of our seminary study do we have the opportunity to study theologians whose work is currently transforming the life of the church. Tom Wright is one such theologian, and a small group of us at Princeton Theological Seminary, together with one of…
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With Justification
Ben Witherington on the Bible and Culture: With Justification (An excellent review of N. T. Wright's Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision.) 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…
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Craig Blomberg on N.T. Wright’s new book
Euangelion: Craig Blomberg on N.T. Wright's new book My friend Craig Blomberg offers some glowing thoughts on N.T. Wright's new book on justification. He writes: "In the past, Wright has often made sweeping pronouncements about how the Reformation was wrong on some key point, but if one keeps patiently reading one later discovers him saying…