I’m a huge N.T. Wright fan. There are many theologians that have been a major influence of my life, Walter Brueggemann, John H. Yoder, Walter Wink, J. Denny Weaver, Glenn Stassen and many more. But in terms of historians and New Testament scholars, I find no one as helpful as Tom Wright for his ability to communicate to conservative Christians the biblical and historical implications of what God has initiate in Jesus.

One of the reasons (there are many) I find Tom Wright’s scholarship so exciting is that his agenda is not ‘nonviolence’, it is exegetical and historical integrity to the Scriptures. It is precisely N.T. Wright’s agenda of historical and scriptural integrity that makes his presentation of the centrality of nonviolence to the agenda of Jesus so powerful.

A group of us in WA know as the ‘Newbigin Group’, formed to consider the public implications of the gospel, have started working our way through some of the implications of N.T. Wright’s scholarship in a way that’s accessible for the ‘non-theologian’.

On this post from time to time I’ll update our intros to N.T. Wright’s work. Here is the first gentle intro:

1. ‘An Introduction to NT Wright and His Work’ by Simon Bibby