Justin Brierley has a lot to answer for. He can’t just wheel out one video with an exciting guest and then be done with it. That would only distract me for an hour or so, then I could go back to everything else I’m supposed to be doing. Instead, he’s launched a whole series called … More Tom Holland meets Tom Wright
I love Tom Wright’s simple, cheerful response to the question about balancing life in the video below (at right about the 1-hour mark): “I get up very early, say my prayers, and do the next three things that have to be done.” Which for Tom Wright happen to include putting right centuries of Pauline scholarship, … More The next three things
…about What St Paul Really Said (hereafter WSPRS). I finished reading Tom Wright’s popular-level WSPRS last night. One of the points I found most delightful and helpful was how Paul’s exploration of God as Trinity (or at least some kind of plurality) didn’t take place over against Jewish monotheism or as playing into the hands of multi-deistic paganism, but … More What Tom Wright Really Said
Well, if NT Wright’s life work has taken a step nearer completion with the publication of Volume 4 of his dogmatics/institutes/magnum opus on Jesus, Paul and the New Testament, my life’s work has just been expanded to encompass trying to read the thing. This latest edition heaves its way in at nearly 1700 pages, according to … More Tom Wright and the many volumes of God
As an addendum to my previous post about the NET translation with the example from Galatians 2:20 and the translation of ‘faithfulness of Christ’, I heard that NT Wright is set to release his fourth volume in the mighty Christian Origins and the Question of God series next year sometime. It’s his volume on Paul – arguably … More An extra little note on ‘the faithfulness of Christ’
I’m doing well at finishing books. Lately I wrote about The Wrong Messiah by Nick Page. It’s perhaps something of a testament to my craziness that at the same time as, and since long before, reading Page’s book, I’ve had The Ressurection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright on the go. Anyone … More The Resurrection of the Son of God
Ben David Trigg 