Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year B

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2002

Overview

N.T. Wright offers reflections on the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year B. This book brings together his widely read columns in the Church Times, and also contains new pieces, to cover all the Sundays and major festivals.

Scholarship, history, and insights into the world and language of the Bible are woven together to give a deeper understanding of the Word of the Lord. This book will be invaluable to anyone who wants to gather their thoughts in preparation for Sunday worship, or for regular Bible study throughout the year.

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Product Details

• Title: Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year B
• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 142
• Christian Group: Anglican
• Resource Type: Lectionaries

About N.T. Wright

Nicholas Tom Wright, commonly known as N.T. Wright or Tom Wright, is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at St. Andrews University. Previously, he was the bishop of Durham. He has researched, taught, and lectured on the New Testament at McGill, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has been named by Christianity Today a top theologian. He is best known for his scholarly contributions to the historical study of Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul. His work interacts with the positions of James Dunn, E.P. Sanders, Marcus Borg, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wright has written and lectured extensively around the world, authoring more than forty books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and popular periodicals. He is best known for his Christian Origins and the Question of God Series, of which three of the anticipated six volumes are finished.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Get Advent right, and you will find Christology comes along with it.” (Page 2)

“We watch the multiple ironies set up by this claim as Jesus stands before Pilate. ‘My kingdom is not from this world’ doesn’t imply that Jesus’ sphere of rule is purely heavenly, leaving earth to stew in its own juice. The saying isn’t about the kingdom’s location, but about its character: this kingdom isn’t the sort that advances by violence. It will come on earth as in heaven, because it is about truth. Pilate, who doesn’t know what truth is (do please read half a verse more, and let the famous question hang in the air for a moment), doesn’t know that there can be a kingdom without violence.” (Page 127)

“Easter humanity, in fact, is genuine humanity, as opposed to humanity distorted and defaced by sin, decay and death. One of the great lies of our time is that abstaining from sin means failure to live a fully human life. Resurrection power comes to us, as it were, from our future, so that we can anticipate the truly human life in the here and now. When John says ‘no one who abides in him sins’ the tense of the latter verb is continuous: sin, though still a possibility, is not now our continual, habitual situation and state.” (Page 59)

“Easter means, amidst much else, that peace, never other than costly, has truly been purchased on the cross.” (Page 56)

“The future assured action of the Lord undergirds the future-oriented behaviour of the disciple.” (Page 7)

Product Details

• Title: Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year B
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: Twelve Months of Sundays
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Sermons; Lectionary › Reflections
• Resource ID: LLS:12MOSUNB
• Resource Type: text.monograph.devotional
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T18:56:12Z

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently 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. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians. 

Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.