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9 August 2014

Congratulations to Tom Wright on the Burkitt medal

Warm congratulations to Tom Wright on being awarded the British Academy’s Burkitt medal for his contribution to Biblical Studies. This is a great honour and richly deserved! Here’s the full announcement by St Andrew’s University, and here’s the list of previous recipients—an impressive group!

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7 August 2014

Reading Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (2)

This is my second post as I’m reading through N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (= PFG). For introduction to the series, see here. After his preface and introductory chapter, where he engages with Philemon and lots of methodological stuff, Wright turns to a series of four chapters on the dominant worldviews of Paul’s day: Judaism, Greek thought, Graeco-Roman religion...

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6 August 2014

Reading Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (1)

I’m reading through N. T. Wright’s massive Paul and the Faithfulness of God (hereafter PFG), so I shall put up a series of periodic posts on what I’m reading and my thoughts about it. Disclaimer: I am not a Pauline specialist, so these are the views of an interested amateur, rather than someone like Simon Gathercole, whose valuable review of PFG I posted...

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26 July 2014

Simon Gathercole on Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God

Here’s a fresh, generous and stimulating review of N. T. Wright’s big Paul and the Faithfulness of God by my friend Simon Gathercole, who teaches in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. I’ve greatly enjoyed reading Simon’s review, which is gracious and clear, and clarifies and maps areas of agreement and disagreement nicely. It’s preparing me for reading Wright himself—I...

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Congratulations to Tom Wright on the Burkitt medal

Reading Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (2)

Reading Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (1)

Simon Gathercole on Tom Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God