Yeah, exactly, why? I asked the same question a while back.
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Oh my goodness, but this is what you get when you put Wright on the table — namely, you have to write a 4471 -word long comment!
You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
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2 Comments
Anson
Really interesting article, but it seems to be just talking about tolerance and mindset differences, not very much about theology.
Could you inform us, perhaps in a single sentence, what is the essence of NT Wright’s Pauline theology and what other reformers are against him about?
I also have the book Simply Christian, but haven’t read that yet =P
Aug 9th, 2006
edmund
To summarize anyone’s theology into a single sentence, I think, is a crime. (how would you like to be summarized into 1 sentence?)
But what I do want to say is that for Wright, Paul must be put into a thoroughly Jewish framework and the situation of the 2nd temple Judaism(s) in order to be understood correctly. For Paul, Jesus is the fulfilment of the great Jewish hope and the one true Lord of the world. This is the gospel. If we read the 2nd temple Jew as a proto-Pelagian, or as a 16th century Roman Catholic, who needed to be told that a person was not saved by works of self-improvement but rather by God’s free grace in Christ Jesus, then we have mis-read Paul’s context and hence mis-understood his message.
Aug 9th, 2006
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