Who is N T Wright?

[lionovjudah]

I have seen this guys name mentioned on certain sites. Who is he? I am not asking you to do research for me, just curious if anyone here knows about him.




Joe

[JoToP]

Wright is an Anglican. Last I heard he was at Duke University. He propounds a theological theory called New Perspective theology which basically states that Paul's view of justification stems from his developments of Christian theology based upon his re-evaluation of his former Second Temple Judaism. He further holds to the view that much of modern interpretation in evangelical Protestant doctrine is grounded in Enlightenment thinking and that what is needed to interpret Scripture properly is a return to a more "Hebraic" approach to hermeneutics as opposed to the leavening "Hellenistic" or "Western" approach which has caused modern Protestantism to interpret justification forensically instead of congregationally (covnenantally). Many of Wright's views are a progression from Barth.

[ray kikkert]

Wright is an Anglican. Last I heard he was at Duke University. He propounds a theological theory called New Perspective theology which basically states that Paul's view of justification stems from his developments of Christian theology based upon his re-evaluation of his former Second Temple Judaism. He further holds to the view that much of modern interpretation in evangelical Protestant doctrine is grounded in Enlightenment thinking and that what is needed to interpret Scripture properly is a return to a more "Hebraic" approach to hermeneutics as opposed to the leavening "Hellenistic" or "Western" approach which has caused modern Protestantism to interpret justification forensically instead of congregationally (covnenantally). Many of Wright's views are a progression from Barth.

Not to mention that his views are heretical and are named so by the Professors of the PRC seminary. It is labelled as the new perspective on Paul. What it is, is NT Wrights new perspective on the Word of God.

greetings and salutations, el rana

[JoToP]

Not to mention that his views are heretical and are named so by the Professors of the PRC seminary. It is labelled as the new perspective on Paul. What it is, is NT Wrights new perspective on the Word of God.

Right. I really don't understand how one can say Paul draws his theology from Second Temple Judaism when he and Jesus so clearly condemn it. Surely, Jesus, Paul and John knew Second Temple Judaism better than anyone alive today and, according to them, STJ was a relgion of works righteousness and human traditionalism. That notwithstanding, Wright, E.P.Sanders et al would have us believe that STJ was grace based (plus covnenant nomism) and that had Paul only understood it properly, he could have been saved within the Jewish system.

Its interesting that we have Wright to import this thinking from the Anglican evangelical marriage to ecumenism which (under Colin Buchanan) sought to find a wider definition of Christian by identifying those who are Christian through baptismal regeneration. New Perspective theology is basically a hermeneutical method that seeks to defend baptismal regeneration through covenant nomism.

[wildboar]

Imagine that N.T. Wright and Martin Luther were both told to paint a picture of the same forest. Luther paints a picture that looks alot like what the forest looks like in real life. Wright denies that the trees are even there, paints a few blades of grass that Luther missed and paints a large purple elephant that wasn't there at all. That's my opinion of N.T. Wright in a nutshell.

If you would like to know what N. T. Wright is teaching and how it differs from the Reformed position and why it is Biblicallly wrong, there were some articles in Outlook by Cornelis Venema in January and February of 2003. They are available as downloadable .pdf files.

January

February

http://www.reformedfellowship.net/archive.htm