Interpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and His Letters
Overview
Interpreting Paul brings together N. T. Wright’s most important articles on Paul and his letters since the publication of his magisterial Paul and the Faithfulness of God in 2013. Many of the included studies have never been published or only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals.
Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive, and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper, and more informed appreciation of Paul and the relevance of his teaching to Christian life and thought today.
- Combines Wright’s most important articles on Paul
- Contains detailed, incisive, and exquisitely nuanced exegesis
- Provides a clearer, deeper, and more informed appreciation of Paul
- A New Perspective on Käsemann? Apocalyptic, Covenant, and the Righteousness of God (2014)
- Justification by (Covenantal) Faith to the (Covenantal) Doers: Romans 2 Within the Argument of the Letter (2014)
- How Greek was Paul’s Eschatology? (2015)
- Paul’s Western Missionary Project: Jerusalem, Rome, Spain in Historical and Theological Perspective (2015)
- The Glory Returns: Spirit, Temple and Eschatology in Paul and John (2016)
- Historical Paul and “Systematic Theology”: To Start a Discussion (2016)
- Paul and Missional Hermeneutics’ (2016)
- God Put Jesus Forth: Reflections on Romans 3:24-26 (2016)
- Paul’s Invention of Christian Theology (2015)
- A Poem Doubled: Pauline Reflections on Theology and Poetry (2018)
- The Challenge of Fraternity in Paul (2018)
- Learning from Paul Together (2018)
Top Highlights
“Basically, what we see in Paul and John is an exodus-based soteriology and a Temple-based ecclesiology.” (Page 78)
“Justification by faith in the present truly anticipates the final verdict and thus provides the foundation for the united believing community without the boundary-markers of Jewish life.” (Page 29)
“those who are ‘not people of flesh, but people of the spirit’, as in 8:9, do submit to God’s law, and do please God” (Page 28)
“but a way of life which corresponds to the divine intention of the life-giving Torah” (Page 30)
- Title: Interpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and His Letters
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 256
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Pauline Studies
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.