NT Wright lecture

[Karen]

On his book, , at Calvin College.

[nomad]

oh, Michigan... only two states and a really big lake away!

[Sven]

There is an interview with him in the most recent issue of Christianity Today, talking about Simply Christian and connecting it to Mere Christianity. You can read the interview .

[Adam Linton]

[John Anthony]

Just this morning, before seeing Karen’s post, I got a copy of Simply Christian from the library. I’m greatly looking forward to reading it. All that I’ve read by Wright so far is his part of the book he co-authored with Borg.

[Josh]

Simply Christian is Wright's attempt to hit the mainstream of Christian publishing (thus, his book stops in the U.S. in the last year--I was at one myself in Georgetown a few months ago). The fact that it hasn't really cracked the market yet is a sad commentary on the current state of Christian literature. It is very, very well done. It's too bad that you have to write a repackaged, shallow self-help book to get a prominent place on book store shelves in the Christianity section these days.

The books that put Wright on the map with scholars and arm chair theologians were his comprehensive Christian Origins and the Question of God series (which is only about half done so far) and What Saint Paul Really Said, where he threw down the gauntlet in the "New Perspective on Paul" movement.

[Adam Linton]

Another recent Wright work, somewhat more popular in style and audience, but - in my view also solid and much worth the read is The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture.

[Leslie]

I like The Last Word too. The Wright book that really knocked me off my feet is The Challenge of Jesus.

[Karen]

[Josh]

I actually did not like The Last Word very much. It probably would have been better if Wright's editors had allowed him more space.

I'd like to see Wright scale back on the pop Christian market a bit and finish his Christian Origins series. He's a good, readable author, but he is at his best as a historian.