N.T. Wright on How Our Worldview Impacts Our Reading of Scripture

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Bishop of Durham and leading New Testament scholar N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly.

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[AegeanKing]

@stuartklenk N.T. Wright was saying the exact same thing when he was Bishop of Durham. So he knows about shepherding. The position that reformed theology is intellectually bankrupt is my position. I never said it was theirs. Lastly, my original statement still stands. Piper is not in the same league with Wright when it comes to theology.

[stuartklenk]

@AegeanKing You're fundamentally misunderstanding Wright's and Piper's roles. Piper is a Pastor; of course he will be more similar to TV Evangelists because his role is to take the theology he finds and to apply it. The Pastor's role goes beyond teaching, it is shepherding, which is to say leading the congregation in the application of theology. Furthermore, to say that Reformed theology is intellectually bankrupt shows a closed-mindedness that neither Wright nor Piper would advocate.

[AegeanKing]

@brendos444 Sorry, I mean Saint John of Damascus. Just google, Saint John of Damascus against Islam.

[brendos444]

@AegeanKing Are you sure that it was St John Chrysostom that wrote a treatise against Islam? Cos Chrysostom predates Islam by more than a century. Perhaps ur thinking of someone else? Anyways let me know which church fathers have written against Islam. I'd be interested in reading them.

[AegeanKing]

@brendos444 Btw, being eastern orthodox as I am, Saint John Chrysostom is one of my favorite theologians. His treatise against Islam is a particular favorite of mine.

[AegeanKing]

@brendos444 So true. Pipers theology would be completely alien to any of the eastern fathers. 

[brendos444]

@Aege I agree. Wright is in the same league as Augustine and Aquinas, although I think he'd disagree with a lot of what both said. He has a far more Eastern theology focus than either Augustine or Aquinas. I find that he's in agreement with a lot of what the Eastern Fathers have said e.g. St John Chrysostom, St Gregory of Nyssa etc. Piper probably doesn;t realise how US-centric his theology is. i.e. the questions asked in contemporary US culture just aren't the questions dealt with in scripture.

[AegeanKing]

@brendos444 Reformed theology is intellectually bankrupt and the truth is, Wright is simply out of Pipers intellectual league. Wright is a theologian in the tradition of Augustine and Aquinas and Piper is a theologian in the tradition of TV evangelists.

[Drgamedood]

@signofthehammer In the video "Nt wright on Darwin 8", he accepts evolutionary theory and the fact that species evolve.

[signofthehammer]

@ClamCrunchy he has a video talking about his thoughts on evolution