Tom or NT Wright
I’ve been listening to lectures by Tom Wright the last couple of weeks, downloaded from the NT Wright Page. So far it’s been “Jesus and the Kingdom” and “Jesus and the cross”. Tom introduces us to the context in which Jesus proclaimed his message, lived, died and rose again.
He’s seen with a bit of suspicion by more conservative Evangelicals. Maybe it’s because he introduces more data to give us fresh perspectives for understanding Jesus and Paul. So far I’m enjoying Tom’s honest grappling with the New Testament text.
From Wikipedia:
Tom (N.T.) Wright is the Bishop of Durham of the Anglican Church and a leading British New Testament scholar. Ordinarily he is known as “Tom Wright”, although his academic work has always been published under the name “NT Wright” (Nicholas Thomas). He is generally perceived as coming from a moderately evangelical perspective. He is associated with the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul (along with James Dunn and E. P. Sanders). He argues that our present day understanding of Jesus must be connected with what is known to be true about him from the historical perspective of first century Judaism and Christianity.
One Response to “Tom or NT Wright”
By Matt Stone on Aug 25, 2005 | Reply
Reading N T Wright in context necessarily requires reading the works of his primary dialogical partners, ie. the Jesus Seminar and its Jesus Quest authors. I think his critics would give him more space if they did and recognised the scope of his achievements in this context. The “Meaning of Jesus : Two Visions” by Marcus J. Borg and N T Wright is an interesting introductory window into that dialogue.