Featured N. T. Wright on women bishops

Not true. I hold in my hands a book titled Paul (in fresh perspective)

N.T.Wright 2009 Fortress Press first paperback edition 2009

 

You do not help your cause (what ever it might be) by being critical of those who have the nerve to say unkind things about the beloved NT Wright but manage to avoid addressing the actual comments on the thread.

 

I have read Wright and the other CofE theologians loved by Baptist of this forum (Packer, Stott and so forth). But you miss my point as it goes right over your head. N.T.Wright is a former BISHOP of the Anglican church, a denomination that is in the opinion of many leading the charge to the bottom of the pit. He is also quite silent on this issue.

The article I post in the OP discusses the general drift into the abyss. You may not care because you might think that an Anglican covenant theologian is 10 times better than any Baptist dispensationalist but that should not stop you from a frank discussion of the actual topic in the OP.

 

I quote from the book I mentioned titled Paul in fresh perspective pg 140 last para:


It has sometimes been said, astonishingly enough but supposedly on the basis of my work on Jesus, that I have systematically denied the doctrine of the “second coming”. Nothing could be further from the truth, though of course this, too, needs cleaning up in the light of what the New Testament actually says as opposed to what sundry would-be Christian traditions have made of it. For some, alas, the very phrase “second coming” and perhaps the word “eschatology” itself, conjures up visions of the “rapture” as understood within some branches of (mostly North American) fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity, and as set out, at a popular level, in the “Left Behind” series of novels by Tim F. Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, and the theology, if you can call it that, which those books embody.


Wright goes on to claim that the dispensational view of Israel is actually anti-jewish. Thats correct, anti-Jewish. But the point is made, pre-trib theology is not Biblical, must not to be taken seriously and probably is based on a series of novels. He cannot help himself, even in light of his superior brain power make the false claim that dispensational theology comes from a series of religious novels, as if the dispensationalist are the only group of evengelicals who write fiction based on the Bible.

Also, not just satisfied with taking the dispensationalist down a peg, Wright basically states that until the advent of the blessed N.T. Wright, many other things that the church at large believed about Paul have to be cleaned up, re-defined and re-thought.

 

So whats my point? Simple N.T. Wright, like the best selling author and scientist Stephen Hawking, when you get right down to is mainly hype. We like and respect N.T. Wright because by doing so, everyone, regardless of their view of the Bible, will like us. Yea! But take a peek under the hood and what do you see? An average theologian who simply repeats, perhaps with a special twist what his like minded colleagues think.

I'm asked by those skeptical of my knowledge of Wright if I have actually read Wright. This is actually the problem, I have read him and actually tried to make sense of his message and to say the least, I'm not impressed. Not that I have it all figured out, no I don't, but no one, including thomas15 is going around saying that thomas15 is some kind of authority on the Christian faith.