Tom Wright Posts
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September 9, 2009
George vs Beckwith, and the entire SBC vs Wright
A few videos worth noting…
If you’re interested in hearing a Reformed Baptist critique of Tom Wright’s new book on justification, check out this panel discussion featuring Southern Baptist theologians Tom Schriener, Mark Seifrid, Brian Vickers and Denny Burke. (I think Burke is a Southern Baptist. Maybe not.) The panel is moderated by Al Mohler.
Wheaton College’s Center for Applied Christian Ethics recently hosted an amiable dialog between Francis Beckwith, recent revert to Catholicism, and Timothy George, the Dean of Beeson Divinity School, on the question, “Can one be both …
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September 3, 2009
Bray on the Pastor-Theologian
In a response to Tom Wright’s book on justification, Gerald Bray chastises Wright for producing a book that has “let us down badly” and is “full of digressions, personal anecdotes which appear to have no purpose other than to win sympathy for the author, and random attacks against unnamed people who are supposed to be typical of popular modern Evangelicals.” In short, Bray didn’t care for the book.
Aside from the caustic tone of the review (and to be fair, Wright’s tone wasn’t always particularly charitable in his book), …
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August 21, 2009
Piper and Wright as Ecclesial Theologians
I read John Piper’s book, The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright a number of months back, and am now finally reading Tom Wright’s book length response, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision.
There’s a lot that could be said here (and I may say some of it later), but I’ll say this much now: both Wright and Piper have produced fine examples of ecclesial theology. I don’t agree fully with either theologian’s treatment of Paul, but it’s clear that both men are writing as …
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