Biography:
N.T. Wright has held a variety of both academic and chaplaincy posts at Oxford, Cambridge, and McGill University, Montreal. He was Canon of Westminister in , before serving as Bishop of Durham between He is 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.
Research Area/s:
Biblical Studies: Old Testament, New Testament, Historical and Systematic Theology
Research Interests:
Jesus and the Gospels; the theology and exegesis of Paul’s letters; and Christology.
Editorships:
Senior Editors for the St Andrews Online Encyclopedia of Theology.
Links:
Publications & Research Outputs:
The Meaning of the Atonement (With Simon Gathercole and others). Louisville: Westminster John Knox
Galatians. Christian Formation Commentaries. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (forthcoming)
God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath. London: SPCK; Grand Rapids: Zondervan
Interpreting Jesus: Essays on the Gospels. London: SPCK; Grand Rapids: Zondervan
Interpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and hi
Dr. Lindsley: How did you come to faith in Christ?
Dr. Wright: I was brought up in a Christian home of a middle-Anglican variety, was baptized as a child among praying relatives, and went to a school where there were daily prayers etc. It wasn’t until my teens that I realized that most adults in the UK didn’t in fact believe in God in any serious way. I had various ‘jumps’ forward in my own Christian experience, each one making real for me in new ways things that had been latent before. The first of these that I remember was when I was about seven; it was around that time that I began to realize I was called to ordained ministry. Another of the things I didn’t know was that that was unusual! In my early teens I started going to boys’ camps run by Scripture Union, at which we had excellent outdoor holidays with strong biblical teaching morning and evening. The combination of a steady church background with exciting biblical study has, I guess, set me up for life.
Dr. Lindsley: What are the top three needs of the Church today?
Dr. Wright: Forgive me saying that’s a very American style of question! But, to run with the genre, I suppose I would say: 1. a better gr
The Rt Revd Prof N.T. Wright
N.T. Wright, who prepared for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, is one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, and a world authority on the apostle Paul. Wright is the author of over 80 academic and lay-level books such as Surprised by Hope, The Day The Revolution Began and Paul: A Biography (writing under the name Tom Wright for a general audience). Wright is ordained in the Church of England and, among other roles, served as Bishop of Durham between -
Since , N.T. Wright has been Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews. He is much in demand as a lecturer around the world and author of the bestselling For Everyone commentary series and the New Testament For Everyone Bible translation. In , Wright delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures, soon to be published as History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology, entitled Discerning the Dawn: History, Eschatology and New Creation.
N.T. Wright was educated at Sedbergh School, then in Yorkshire, where he specialised in Classics.
From to , he studied Literae Humaniores at Exeter College, Oxford, receiving his BA with First Class
Wright, N.T. –
(Nicholas Thomas Wright)
PERSONAL:
Born December 1, , in Morpeth, Northumberland, England; son of N.I. (a company director) and F. (a homemaker) Wright; married Margaret E.A. Fiske, August 14, ; children: Julian, Rosamund, Harriet, Oliver. Education: Exeter College, Oxford, B.A. (humanities; with first class honors), , B.A. (theology; with first class honors), , M.A., ; Merton College, Oxford, , , D.D., Religion:Church of England. Hobbies and other interests: Golf, cricket, hill walking, the classical world, music, poetry, travel.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 7NR, England; fax: [email&#;protected].
CAREER:
Ordained priest of Church of England, ; Cambridge University, Downing College, Cambridge, England, fellow and chaplain, ; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, assistant professor of New Testament language and literature, ; Oxford University, Worcester College, Oxford, England, lecturer in New Testament studies, fellow, and chaplain, ; Church of England, canon theologian of Coventry Cathedral, , dean of Lichfield, —, canon of Westminster, , bishop of Durham, —. Institute for Christian Studies,
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