All Ask NT Wright articles – Page 12
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #11 Easter, the resurrection and thoughts on Jordan Peterson
As Easter approaches Tom answers a variety of listener questions on the Biblical resurrection accounts, the nature of the resurrection body, why Jesus didn’t stay with us, and also shares his thoughts on popular psychology professor Jordan B Peterson.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #10 Tom answers Personal Qs on favourite preachers, authors and his own faith
Listeners want to know about Tom - Who are his favourite authors? If he could have dinner with anyone from the 20th Century who would it be? Why is he an Anglican? Has he ever struggled with his own faith?
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ShowsWhat do you think of Jordan Peterson?
Bible scholar Tom Wright responds to listener questions about popular psychology professor Jordan Peterson. What does he think of his book 12 Rules for Life? And what about his interest in whether the resurrection really happened? Will Tom have a conversation with him?
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #9 Old Testament violence, Andy Stanley and Greg Boyd
Tom responds to listener Qs on Andy Stanley ‘unhitching’ Christianity from the Old Testament, the historicity of the Exodus, and the way that Greg Boyd interprets violent portraits of God in ‘The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God’.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #8 Resurrection, hell, universalism, dispensationalism (and much more)
In an extended edition of the show originally broadcast on the Unbelievable? podcast, Justin asks a variety of listener questions on dispensationalism, John’s gospel, inerrancy, salvation, hell, universalism and Tom’s favourite books, music and much more…
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #7 Bible infallibility, Sola Scriptura and slavery
How should we treat the Bible? Inerrant? Infallible? Does it contain errors? Tom answers questions on the nature of the Bible as well as related issues such as whether the Reformers were right to concentrate solely on scripture rather than church tradition, and whether there is a ‘trajectory hermeneutic’ when it comes to issues like slavery in the Bible.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage
Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such as Ephesians 5: 22 ‘wives submit to your husband’?
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ShowsNT Wright sings Dylan’s ‘When The Ship Comes In’
New Testament scholar Tom Wright pulls out his guitar to sing Bob Dylan’s ‘When the ship comes in’.
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ShowsHow do I share the Gospel with a Muslim?
Bible scholar Tom Wright answers a listener from Beirut’s question on how to have fruitful gospel conversations with Muslims.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #5 Qs on the life of St Paul, justification and predestination
Tom Wright talks to Justin about his new book Paul: A Biography and takes listener questions on ‘justification’, election and salvation and what three things he would ask Paul if he were alive today.
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ShowsHow do you respond to Bart Ehrman?
NT Wright responds to Bart Ehrman’s critique of the reliability of the Gospels and shares some of his experience interacting with the sceptical Bible scholar.
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ShowsAre the Christmas stories in the bible fact or fiction?
NT Wright responds to a question on whether the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are historically reliable or a ‘pious’ fiction.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #4 Qs on Mission, Evangelism, Islam and other religions
In this episode Tom Wright fields listener questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world, returning to a message of repentance, whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God, and how to talk about Jesus with a Muslim.
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ShowsDo you believe in penal substitution?
What does it mean to say that ‘Jesus died in our place’ on the cross? Tom Wright responds on how we should and shouldn’t view penal substitution.
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ShowsAn atheist objection: Was Jesus’ sacrifice just a ‘bad weekend at human camp’?
An atheist poses an objection to the crucifixion to Biblical scholar Tom Wright.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #3 Qs on Christmas, the historical Jesus, Bart Ehrman & The Ascension
Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described.
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ShowsMy father died. Where is he now?
Leading Bible scholar Tom Wright answers Mike’s question about where his father is, following his death.
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ShowsResponding to William Lane Craig criticism ∕∕ Ask NT Wright Anything
A listener asks about William Lane Craig’s critique that “NT Wright has this very peculiar view that the son of man returned in AD 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem”.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #2 Qs on sacrifice, crucifixion and atonement
Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at human camp’.
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ShowsAsk NT Wright Anything #1 Questions on Heaven, the Kingdom of God and the return of Christ
In the first full episode of the show, Tom Wright answers listener questions on how to teach children about new creation, where our loved ones go after they die, and responds to a critique from William Lane Craig.
