N. T. Wright
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The Right Reverend Nicholas Thomas Wright |
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Wright speaking at a conference
in December 2007 |
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| In office | 1 September 2010 – present |
| Other posts |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1975 |
| Consecration | 2003 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Nicholas Thomas Wright |
| Born |
1 December 1948 Morpeth, Northumberland, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Residence |
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| Spouse | Maggie |
| Children | Four |
| Education |
Sedbergh School Exeter College, Oxford |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
Nicholas Thomas Wright (born 1 December 1948) is a leading British New Testament scholar and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but is otherwise known as Tom Wright. Between 2003 and his retirement in 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham. He then became Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Among conservative New Testament scholars, Wright advocated the necessity of scriptural evidence in regard to views on theological matters such as justification, Christ’s bodily resurrection and second coming. He opposed both the ordination of openly gay Christians and the blessing of same-sex partnerships and marriages in the US Episcopal Church. He has criticised the idea of a literal Rapture and traditional Christian views on life after death. He co-authored a book of contrasting views, The Meaning of Jesus, with friend and prominent liberal opponent Marcus Borg, wherein Wright argued that Jesus did rise from the dead and was seen by many witnesses. Wright is associated with the Open Evangelical movement and New Perspective on Paul, both of which are seen as controversial in many conservative evangelical circles.
Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland. In a 2003 interview, he said that he could never remember a time when he was not aware of the presence and love of God and recalled an occasion when he was four or five when "sitting by myself at Morpeth and being completely overcome, coming to tears, by the fact that God loved me so much he died for me. Everything that has happened to me since has produced wave upon wave of the same."
He was educated at Sedbergh School, then in Yorkshire, Wright specialised in classics. In the late 1960s Wright sang and played guitar in a folk club on the west side of Vancouver. From 1968 to 1971, he studied Literae Humaniores (classical literature, philosophy and history) at Exeter College, Oxford, receiving his BA with first class honours in 1971. During that time he was president of the undergraduate Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. In 1973 he received a BA in theology with first class honours from Exeter.
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