S9 Ep949: The Gospel, New Creation, Re-reading Paul, Heaven, and American Christianity: Dr. N.T. Wright
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
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Summary
Tom Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Prior to serving at Oxford, Tom has held a variety of both academic and chaplaincy posts at Oxford, Cambridge, and McGill University, Montreal. He was Canon of Westminster in 2000, before serving as Bishop of Durham between 2003-2010. He’s the author of over 10 million books, or something like that.
In the episode, we talk about many things related to New Testament theology including the meaning of the term “gospel,” understanding Paul’s letters in their historical and biblical context, the importance of resurrection (over the significance of “going to heaven when you die”), the meaning of “hell,” and other personal things about his spiritual and theological journey. We also talk about the polarization in American Christianity and other contemporary issues.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright friends, I am so excited about this episode and I'm doing something that I normally don't do. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm I'm pre-recording this intro before actually call NT, right? |
| 0:10.1 | Which I you know usually I talk to the person first and I pre-record then I pre-record an intro that kind of you know |
| 0:15.6 | I'm already aware of what we talked about so I can explain that a little bit |
| 0:18.4 | But here I'm doing ahead of time. So I'm no clue. We're gonna talk about. I'm just so |
| 0:22.8 | giddy and nervous right now |
| 0:25.8 | I've been trying to get Tom Tom. He told me calm Tom. So I'm a calm Tom. I tried to get Tom on the podcast for many years |
| 0:32.2 | You know bit a huge huge |
| 0:34.7 | Theological hero of mine going all the way back. I would say almost that just about 20 years ago when I first came across NT |
| 0:42.0 | Right now I'll tell the story |
| 0:44.0 | When Tom comes on the show here in a second |
| 0:46.7 | But yeah, I just been a huge huge voice in my life |
| 0:50.5 | Influence a model of what it means to be a biblical scholar and I'm super nervous right now |
| 0:56.1 | What are we gonna talk about oh my gosh? I actually comb my hair, too |
| 0:58.8 | You should I just wear a hat and I put out a nice shirt. So I feel like I don't know |
| 1:01.4 | I don't want to look too stupid around Tom |
| 1:03.4 | So for NT or doctor right or whatever. So if you don't know who NT right is |
| 1:08.5 | Is there anybody out there doesn't so he's the author of over 70 books? |
| 1:12.4 | He is an Anglican Bishop was the Bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010 |
| 1:17.1 | He is currently |
| 1:19.2 | research professor of |
| 1:21.2 | No, he was former research professor of New Testament early Christianity at University of St Andrews |
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