New Testament Wisdom for Everyone
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Overview
This volume contains a distillation of Tom Wright’s meditations on the wisdom of Jesus and the apostles, drawn from his popular For Everyone series. Wright divides his work into five main sections which discuss the wisdom of the spirit, the transformation of the self, the greatest of the virtues, the path of the disciple, and the renewal of the world. He offers compelling translations of key passages and insightful commentary on New Testament teaching on discipleship and the meaning of Christian love. Wright also includes stimulating questions for personal reflection or group discussion, making this an ideal resource for personal or group study. This helpful devotional resource is for fans of the For Everyone commentaries as well as for anyone who has not yet read them.
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- Offers compelling translations of key passages
- Includes insightful commentary on New Testament teaching
- Presents an ideal resource for personal or group study
- The wisdom of the spirit
- The transformation of the self
- The greatest of the virtues
- The path of the disciple
- The renewal of the world
Top Highlights
“Faith is what happens when you look out of the window, away from yourself, to the God who is so much greater than you. Patience is what happens inside the house when you do that.” (Pages 16–17)
“As every tyrant knows, death is the final threat by which power is exercised in this world.” (Page 6)
“What matters is being ready; being prepared; being wise; thinking ahead” (Page 69)
“He stresses first that the ‘spiritual’ person makes judgments on a different plane to the merely natural one (verse 15), while the judgments that such people make will pass him or her by without effect. The evidence he offers is a quotation from Isaiah 40:13, where the prophet looks at the wider world and asks, ‘Who has known yhwh’s mind?’, expecting the answer, ‘No one’. But if the Messiah has already become for us ‘wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption’ (1:30), then it is not a long step to say that we—that is, those who have the spirit—possess the Messiah’s mind. If that is true, there is no depth of wisdom too deep, no height too high, for us to explore.” (Pages 10–11)
“Thus, as my teacher, Professor George Caird, used to say, the highest religion and the best government that the world had ever seen got together to execute the Lord of glory—an irony that Paul, too, undoubtedly appreciated. The Bible is always clear that God intends human society to be ruled by appropriate wise and just government; but all government, precisely because it wields power, has the capacity to go bad, to become arrogant, to act in ways that promote its own self-interest instead of true justice, wisdom and truth.” (Pages 5–6)
No other commentary series comes even close.
—The Christian Century
- Title: New Testament Wisdom for Everyone
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Publisher: SPCK
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christianity › Prayers and devotions; Prayers; Wisdom
- ISBNs: 9780281069378, 9780281069385, 0281069379, 0281069387
- Resource ID: LLS:NTWISDOMEVERYONE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:31:04Z
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.
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