Tom Wright (theologian)
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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, Pauline theologian, 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.
Widely considered a conservative New Testament scholar, Wright is nevertheless viewed as controversial by a number of prominent evangelical leaders, primarily because of his association with the Open Evangelical movement and the New Perspective on Paul. He advocates a biblical re-evaluation of and fresh approach to theological matters such as justification, women's ordination, and popular Christian views about life after death. He has also criticised the idea of a literal Rapture. More liberal Christian branches have found fault in Wright's opposition of both the ordination of openly gay Christians and the blessing of same-sex partnerships and marriages in the US Episcopal Church. The author of over seventy books, Wright is highly regarded in academic and theological circles primarily for his "Christian Origins and the Question of God" series. The third volume, The Resurrection of the Son of God, is considered by many pastors and theologians to be a seminal Christian work on the resurrection of the historical Jesus, while the most recently released fourth volume, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, is hailed as Wright's magum opus.
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."
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