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Tom Wright

Conspiring against Tom Wright

November 16, 2009

I’d like to thank Jon Swales for drawing attention to this. He is surprised that Themelios asked John Piper’s executive assistant to review Tom Wright’s robust demolition of Piper’s attack on the New Perspective. He is not surprised that the review is unfavourable.
One may suspect the influence of the general editor, one Don Corleone Carson. [...]

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Coming up: Tom Wright’s coherent Paul

October 15, 2009

Andy Goodliff has a blurb for Tom Wright’s big book on Paul, together with some fairly pertinent questions.

Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Volume IV of Christian Origins and the Question of God) combines history and theology (exegesis being a branch of both), using the worldview-analysis outlined earlier. I shall examine (i) Paul’s characteristic praxis, [...]

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NT Wright for Dummies – a ten point bluffer’s guide (seriously)

September 27, 2009

… well, almost completely seriously. Yesterday I posted a quick flippant comment (which I accidentally deleted when I went to edit it!) on Nijay Gupta’s idea of producing an Idiot’s Guide to NT Wright. The speed with which a number of readers took a look at it made me think it might be worth doing [...]

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Is Tom Wright over-egging his polemical pudding?

July 15, 2009

Tom Wright does like his polemics, and nearly always has something worthwhile to say (even if it is not always as worthwhile as he thinks). He is quick off the mark with a pulpit piece in today’s Times about how he sees the fallout from The Episcopal Church’s decision (as it seems) to lift their [...]

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