An excellent and tough-minded appraisal of Bishop N.T. Wright by Dr. Gerald Bray. This article is a keeper. I include the first paragraph of this six-page document.
http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_123_2_Editorial.pdf
Churchman
E D I T O R I A L by Dr. Gerald Bray
The Wrighteousness of God
"Lovers of theological controversy have been treated to a rare feast just recently, but perhaps the most significant of the battles being waged at the moment is the one concerning justification by faith, otherwise known as Tom Wright contra mundum. The Bishop of Durham’s latest book, Justification. God’s plan and Paul’s vision (London: SPCK, 2009) is meant to be his reply to John Piper’s The Future of Justification. A response to N. T. Wright (Wheaton: Crossway, 2007) but in fact it ranges much more widely than that, taking in a broad band of critics and setting out his various positions in opposition to theirs. In this broadside attack against all and sundry, Mr. Piper has to take his place alongside such unlikely co-defendants as E. P. Sanders and James Dunn, to whom he dedicates the book, not to mention a host of anonymous people to whom all sorts of views are ascribed. What is going on here?............"
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Excellent and tough-minded? I think not. Perhaps the worst thing that Bray has ever written.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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