N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas Wright ( born 1 November 1948 in Morpeth, Northumberland ), better known as NT Wright and Tom Wright, is professor of New Testament and early Christianity, Anglican Bishop Emeritus of Durham ( England) and a leading New Testament theologian and life - Jesus researchers in the English language.

Life

Tom Wright grew up in the North of England and studied at Exeter College, Oxford Theology and History. In 1981 he was appointed professor of New Testament at McGill University in Montréal. In 1986 he returned to Oxford, where he was a professor and chaplain of Worcester College, 1994, he was Domdekan of Lichfield, 2000 Canons of Westminster Abbey, and in 2003 Bishop of Durham, the fourth most important bishopric of the Church of England. Wright was in 2004 to the members of the Lambeth Commission on Communion, which drew up the Windsor Report.

In 2010 he resigned as bishop and became a Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Tom Wright is married to Margaret Elizabeth Anne Fiske and has two sons and two daughters.

Works

Wright has published more than thirty books, some academic works under the name NT Wright, partly to the general public under the name of Tom Wright.

His academic works dealing with New Testament exegesis, especially with the new perspective on Paul and the Historical Jesus research. In the life of Jesus research, which is partially developed during a sabbatical year in Israel, he goes strictly by a historian standpoint, as refers to the Old and New Testament, Jewish and non-canonical writings, as in Greek classic, Albert Schweitzer, Ernst cheese man and EP Sanders.

Wright is an independent thinker who is both modern and classic interpretations in question. It is difficult to classify. By conservative critics, he is referred to as liberal, liberal critics as conservative.

Wright distanced himself clearly from the liberal theology, but also shocked evangelicals by postmodern approaches or theories that provide cherished concepts in question. He has no fear of contact is a personal friend of Marcus Borg, theologically represents a completely different position as a member of the Jesus Seminar, and has already published books together with him and held lecture tours. ( Borg sees Jesus as a prophet in the context of Judaism of the first century, who came into conflict with his agenda and symbolic acts with the powerful. )

Eschatology

N.t. Wright occurs with the claim by its historical, exegetical and theological research, specifically the New Testament idea of ​​the future of the world and of the individual ( eschatology ) over current confusion in culture and church to help to her right. By examining the eschatological ideas in the pagan and Jewish environment of the New Testament, he tried to show the eschatology of early Christianity. It represents the component is close to Jewish- Pharisaic notions that at crucial points (especially the anticipation of the general resurrection resurrection of Jesus Christ ) has been changed, however. " Into the sky. Come after you died " He deconstructs popular notions of Christianity, after which it merely involved in Christianity in his 2011 published book, Simply Jesus, he coined the provocative sentence: " The Gospels do not act it, to which way, Jesus proved God. You are about how God on earth as King in heaven. " He rejects the idea of an evolutionary growth of the world for the better as well as the idea of ​​an end of the world. Instead, go to God's action in Christianity who reconciles the world to himself and " Day of Judgment " transformed. The church had already fragmentary act out the role of this final transformative action of God. It 'll go into primary way to God's dealings with the world through the Church and it is clear then only the question of the fate of the individual after death.

Works (selection)

Important academic works are:

  • Stephen Neill: The Interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1988.
  • The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology. T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1991; Fortress, Minneapolis 1992
  • The New Testament and the People of God. Volume I of Christian Origins and the Question of God. London 1992
  • Jesus and the Victory of God. Volume II of Christian Origins and the Question of God. SPCK, London, 1996; Fortress, Minneapolis 1996
  • What St Paul Really Said. Oxford, Lion, 1997; Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 1997.
  • Marcus Borg: Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. 2000, ISBN 0-06-060876-5
  • The Resurrection of the Son of God. Volume III of Christian Origins and the Question of God. SPCK, London 2003; Fortress, Minneapolis 2003
  • The Last Word. 2005, ISBN 0-06-081609-0
  • Scripture and the Authority of God. SPCK, London, 2005.
  • Surprised By Hope. Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. Harper Collins, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-155182-6
  • After you Believe: Why Christian Character Matters. Harper Collins, New York 2010
  • Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters. HarperOne, San Francisco, 2011.
  • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels. HarperOne, San Francisco, 2012.

In German published (in chronological order)

  • The Resurrection of the Son of God. A historical perspective. 2001, ISBN 3-921113-03-2
  • Why Christian makes his sense ( Simply Christian ). John, Lahr / Schwarzwald 2009, ISBN 978-3-501-01614-5
  • What is Paul really went. Well, casting 2010, ISBN 978-3-7655-1454-8
  • The New Testament and the People of God. ( The Origins of Christianity and the Question of God, Vol 1) Francke bookstore, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86827-242-0
  • Faith - and then? By the transformation of the character. Francke bookstore, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86827-243-7
  • Surprised by Hope: What the Bible really says about resurrection and eternal life. Sowing, Neukirchen 2011, ISBN 3-7615-5842-2
  • Challenge Jesus. Who he was and who he is. causa mundi, Böblingen 2012 ( engl. Orig 2000), ISBN 978-3-943641-00-4
  • Small Faith - Great God. (Small Faith, Great God ) Neufeld Verlag, Black box 2013. ISBN 978-3-86256-030-1
  • Jesus: who he was, what he wanted and why he is important to us. ( Simply Jesus) Francke Bookstore, 2013. ISBN 978-3868273847
  • Jesus and the Victory of God. ( Jesus and the Victory of God) ( The Origins of Christianity and the Question of God, Volume 2) Francke Bookstore, 2013. ISBN 978-3868273830
  • Matthew for today 1 ( Matthew for everyone 1) Fountain Publishers, ISBN 978-3765506116 casting 2013
  • Matthew for Today 2 ( Matthew for everyone 2) Fountain Publishers, ISBN 978-3765506123 casting 2013
  • Evil and the Justice of God. causa mundi, Böblingen 2013
  • The Resurrection of the Son of God. ( The Origins of Christianity and the Question of God, Vol 3) Francke bookstore, Marburg 2014
  • Paul for today. The book of Romans 1 fountain -Verlag, Giessen, 2014
  • Paul for today. The book of Romans 2 wells -Verlag, Giessen, 2014
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