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

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2000

Overview

N.T. Wright offers reflections on the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C. 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, 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 for 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 C
• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 144
• 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

“It isn’t that Jesus had a particular thing about people loving each other, his own idiosyncratic addition to an ever-increasing store of miscellaneous ethical maxims. It is, rather, that just as his own life, and approaching death, were the true expression of the Father’s heart, so he intends his followers to become a further, and continuing, re-embodiment of that same love.” (Pages 62–63)

“Christianity, then, did not begin as, nor is it best characterized in terms of, a pattern of spirituality (a particular way of sensing the presence of God), a code of ethics (a particular variation on the codes which are, broadly speaking, common to most religions), or even a set of doctrines. Of course, it invites people to experience God’s presence, to know his will, and to believe his truth; indeed, if understood correctly, it must include all three. But it begins as a challenge to allegiance. There cannot be two kings of kings and lords of lords.” (Pages 56–57)

“Welcome to Advent: a rich mix of politics, prophecy, prayer and perseverance. Oh, and holiness, too: if the Lord, in his royal presence, will ‘establish your hearts unblameable in holiness’, it would be as well to live in the present in the mode that is to be vindicated in the future.” (Page 3)

“With ‘shepherd’ a regular biblical image for ‘king’, anyone talking about themselves as the true shepherd, not least at that festival, must have been offering themselves, however cryptically, as God’s anointed.” (Page 60)

“Now, in the new creation, symbols give way to reality: God himself will be personally present, and the whole city will shine with his light.” (Page 64)

Product Details

• Title: Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year C
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: Twelve Months of Sundays
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Sermons; Lectionary › Reflections
• Resource ID: LLS:12MOSUNC
• Resource Type: text.monograph.devotional
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T18:56:13Z

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.