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Tom Wright is one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars and the author of many academic and lay level books including Surprised by Hope, The Day The Revolution Began and Paul: A Biography.
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Ask NT Wright Anything #11 Easter, the resurrection and thoughts on Jordan Peterson - 09/04/2019 - download
As Easter approaches Tom answers a variety of listener questions on the Biblical resurrection accounts, the nature of the resurrection body, why Jesus didn’t stay with us, and also shares his thoughts on popular psychology professor Jordan B Peterson.
Ask NT Wright Anything #10 Tom answers Personal Qs on favourite preachers, authors and his own faith - 27/03/2019 - download
Listeners want to know about Tom - Who are his favourite authors? If he could have dinner with anyone from the 20th Century who would it be? Why is he an Anglican? Has he ever struggled with his own faith?
Ask NT Wright Anything #9 Old Testament violence, Andy Stanley and Greg Boyd - 12/03/2019 - download
Tom responds to listener Qs on Andy Stanley ‘unhitching’ Christianity from the Old Testament, the historicity of the Exodus, and the way that Greg Boyd interprets violent portraits of God in ‘The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God’.
Ask NT Wright Anything #8 Resurrection, hell, universalism, dispensationalism (and much more) - 26/02/2019 - download
In an extended edition of the show originally broadcast on the Unbelievable? podcast, Justin asks a variety of listener questions on dispensationalism, John’s gospel, inerrancy, salvation, hell, universalism and Tom’s favourite books, music and much more…
How should we treat the Bible? Inerrant? Infallible? Does it contain errors? Tom answers questions on the nature of the Bible as well as related issues such as whether the Reformers were right to concentrate solely on scripture rather than church tradition, and whether there is a ‘trajectory hermeneutic’ when it comes to issues like slavery in the Bible.
Ask NT Wright Anything #6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage - 30/01/2019 - download
Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such as Ephesians 5: 22 ‘wives submit to your husband’?
Ask NT Wright Anything #5 Qs on the life of St Paul, justification and predestination - 16/01/2019 - download
Tom Wright talks to Justin about his new book Paul: A Biography and takes listener questions on ‘justification’, election and salvation and what three things he would ask Paul if he were alive today.
Ask NT Wright Anything #4 Qs on Mission, Evangelism, Islam and other religions - 01/01/2019 - download
In this episode Tom Wright fields listener questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world, returning to a message of repentance, whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God, and how to talk about Jesus with a Muslim.
And Tom gets his guitar out again…
And Tom gets his guitar out again…
Ask NT Wright Anything #3 Qs on Christmas, the historical Jesus, Bart Ehrman & The Ascension - 11/12/2018 - download
Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described.
Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at human camp’.