The King’s Version: N.T. Wright’s New Testament
HarperCollins has announced: The King’s Version A Contemporary Translation of the New Testament By N. T. Wright On Sale: 9/27/2011 No more details are given, but Timothy of Catholic Bibles speculates...
View ArticleAuckland Castle: home of Bishops of Durham no longer
The Northern Echo confirms what was widely expected: THE Church of England has confirmed that Auckland Castle will no longer be used as the home of the Bishop of Durham. The castle, in Bishop Auckland,...
View ArticleThe Kingdom New Testament: N.T. Wright’s new title
I thank commenter Jonathan for alerting me to an interesting change in the title of N.T. Wright’s forthcoming version of the New Testament. The book title previously announced, including here at Gentle...
View ArticleJudgment Day not yesterday: a post-non-mortem
For yesterday, 21st May, Harold Camping and his associates were predicting not just the Rapture but also worldwide earthquakes and Judgment Day. But nothing special seems to have happened. Yes, there...
View ArticleN.T. Wright on Bell’s hell and God’s love
T.C. Robinson quotes a passage from N.T. Wright (taken from a post by Trevin Wax) in which the bishop emeritus (not I think his formal title) starts by considering the question “Why are Americans so...
View ArticleN.T. Wright: Lost and found in translation
I have just posted at Better Bibles Blog about an interesting essay by Bishop N.T. Wright entitled Lost and found in translation: From 1611 to 2011. See my BBB post for a taster, or follow the second...
View ArticleN.T. Wright: Jesus in 3D
Brian LePort has an interesting post N.T. Wright on the Chalcedonian Definition. For those who don’t know, the Chalcedonian Definition was the climax of the early church’s quest to define the nature of...
View ArticleWright’s NT for Everyone: Not the Kingdom in the UK
In May I wrote about The Kingdom New Testament, the new title for N.T. Wright’s new version. As I noted in an update two days ago, the former Bishop of Durham’s translation is now scheduled for...
View ArticleN.T. Wright: Paul doesn’t direct women to teach
At the new BLT blog Theophrastus has posted about Deduction and Tom Wright’s Translation of 1 Timothy 2:11-12, and Suzanne McCarthy has responded. Yesterday I also responded to Theo, but only to one...
View ArticleN.T. Wright on Scripture and the Authority of God
This is how N.T. Wright, the former Bishop of Durham and now a professor at St Andrews, ends a paper on Scripture and the Authority of God: Scripture is then part of the Spirit-given means, along with...
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