The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Christian Scholarship and N. T. Wright

James White has a wonderful Dividing Line broadcast!

http://aomin.org/dividingline.html

I don't know how long it will be available to listen to, as broadcasts are not being archived at the moment.

Wow! Thanks. I especially liked what he had to say about Christian scholarhip/academia. This is something that has concerned me a lot, even in some of the critiques to the NPP.

I listened last night. After hearing what was read from Wright's writings, I began to wonder if the huge interest in NPP is at least in part because some people would like other people to think they have the knowledge, education, and intellect to make sense of his writings!!

The most telling comment was this: "If you don't agree with NT Wright it's only because you don't understand him. . .or you haven't read him widely enough. . .or you need to brush up on medieval studies or philosophy. . .

I have heard nearly all of these comments when I have talked to NPP'ers and tried to pin them down.

This is a popular ruse used by those who are wanting to introduce spurious and/or "new thinking" into Christian doctrine. If you remember, this is exactly the same argument some used here in regard to Theonomy/Reconstructionism. If anyone disagreed with their view, it was due to the fact that they were ignorant of what Theonomy/Reconstructionism actually taught, you are unread, etc., ad nauseam. Such silliness is rather insulting in that it implies that if one really had any brains at all and had read all that had been written on the subject, then one would automatically embrace their position.

In His Grace,

Pilgrim

It also sounds like they are above everyone else. If they actually believed that people don't understand him, why don't they try and explain their theology using different words?
As a friend who is a teacher told me. "A good teacher always finds ways to make his students understand. A teaching degree does not necessarily make a good teacher."

Tom

Tom

I don't remember whether they have been cited here before but be sure to see Doug Green's N.T. Wright - A Westminster Seminary Perspective and Covenant Theological Seminary's New Perspectives on Paul Symposium.

Clay