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Terms and conditions apply. The Ask NTWrite Anything podcast. Hello and welcome to the Ask

Entryte Anything podcast. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm of course joined with Tom Wright from Oxford in England. Hello.

Well, Tom, it's great to be with you and to have our listeners. And once more, we've got a couple of good questions this week, covering everything

from patristic exegesis, the church fathers and the Bible, and whether the apostle Paul

was really an apostle. So let's go to our first question. This is from Joshua Greve or

perhaps Grever. I don't know.

Apologies to Josh if I'm not pronouncing that right, but he's interested in biblical

interpretation and the early church. And this is what he asks. Could you discuss the role

and significance of the church fathers, you know, patristics, in biblical exegesis. How might their perspectives

complement or contrast with contemporary evangelical approaches, especially in relation to

solar scriptura versus a more orthodox or historical approach to scripture? So Tom, how do the church fathers stand up in the exegetical metrics

compared to contemporary evangelical and scholarly interpreters?

Good question from Joshua.

Yes, great question.

Thanks, Joshua.

Though it gets a little complicated towards the end of your question because you talk about the contrast with contemporary evangelical approaches in relation to solar scripture versus more orthodox or historical approach. Now, I'm not sure whether orthodox was a capital O there meaning as in Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox or whether it just means in the great tradition of the Nicene Creed and the Calcedonian definition and then the historical approach, which many would see as actually conflicting with a Nicene or Calcedonian approach. So let's just try and line those things up. In the second century, you've got

people like Ignatius of Antioch and then Justin Martyr and then ultimately Araneus and then on

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