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Annie asked the other day who N.T. (Tom) Wright is. I think it is best for her or any of you interested to go through my previous posts about him.

Also worth reading is a chinese introduction from fes.org.hk last year. 

Update: 
Thanks Anson for his summary and suggestions.

N.T. Wright will come to Toronto as one of the keynote speakers on the 2nd annual Refresh! conference which will be held from May 9-12 2006. The theme of the conference is Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8)

From the conference website:

The Holy Spirit was once called the “quiet member of the Trinity,” and so has been the Spirit’s profile in the history of theology. But by contrast the contemporary scene is flush with competing accounts of the Spirit’s work, whether in the depths of the psyche, in political activism, or in renewal movements. Paul treats life in the Spirit in Romans 8 in the richest context: the freedom of prayer to the triune God, the groaning of all creation, the Christian’s hope of glory, and our confident battle with the powers of the world. What would it look like for us as Christians, lay and ordained, to develop a rich doctrine of the Spirit for ministry at the present time? Both guest lecturers and members of the Wycliffe faculty will help to answer this question in the second annual Refresh! conference.

You can find the conference schedule here. General information can be found here and the Conference program here. Registration has started as well.

If time allows, I will attend the evening plenary on May 10 ("Creation Renewed") and 11 ("The Spirit's Powerful Groaning"). 

Anyone interested?

P.S. Wright did speak about "The Holy Spirit in the Church" last year at the fulcrum conference. Another related talk was his 2000 Charles Gore Lectures entitled, "Coming Home to St Paul? Reading Romans a Hundred Years after Charles Gore", which he laid out the structure and thought-process behind Romans. And of course you can always refer to his NIB commentary on Romans if you have THAT much time.

Via Mark Goodacre's NT Gateway:

The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan And N.T. Wright in Dialogue

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Fortress Press (January 1, 2006)

 
The book is based on the inaugural Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum at New Orleans Seminary held on March 11, 2005 where N.T. Wright and John Dominic Crossan were the featured speakers. Wright, an Anglical evangelical scholar, defended the literal, bodily resurrection of Jesus, while Crossan, a professor emeritus at DePaul University, set forth a metaphorical interpretation of the resurrection.

The good fellow at opensourcetheology have done us a great favor by laying out a good roadmap for N.T. Wright's first 3 volumes of his Christian Origins and the Question of God project.

Before you saved enough $ to buy the actual books, I encourage you to read them first. In fact, even after you bought the books, I still encourage you to read them before engaging the text itself.

…. um, I am having a déjà vu — did I blog this before?

我說過多次，NT Wright是我們這一代信徒不應亦不可忽視的神學家和牧者。能看見有關他的中文介紹，實在叫我興奮！

牧養和學術兼備的主教神學家—湯姆 · 賴特（Nicholas Thomas Wright）

Joan Bakewell returns for another series in which she talks with a guest each evening about what they believe and why. Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, is a key figure in the challenge of keeping the Anglican Communion united, and is a Biblical scholar known for his robust interpretations of both Jesus and St Paul.
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Another 14,000 words interview with N.T. Wright

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I know, but there is actually a Part 7 to this 6-part series!

Anglican Bishop N.T Wright Interview
17 November 2004

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The Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, is one of the leading intellectuals in the Anglican Church today, a New Testament scholar who describes himself as “a good Calvinist”. He speaks about what St Paul understood about homosexuality, and what he meant by “Justification” and Christ being “the end of the Torah”. [Read more]