My friend Josh Jipp (TEDS), author of Reading Acts, has a great video about the Book of Acts: And here’s the blurb for his book: The book of Acts tells the story of what happened after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The book is filled with adventure and entertainment as Acts narrates God’s activity among his people and the world. In this book I explore one way of reading Acts that attends closely to the plotline of the book and... Read more
David Wenham From Good News to Gospels: What Did the First Christians Say about Jesus? Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018. Available at amazon.com David Wenham has written a short – only 108 pages – and yet informative book on the origins of the Gospels, in particular, how they are rooted and shaped by the oral tradition of the early church. Wenham shows how the genesis of the oral tradition began with Jesus himself and was taken upon into the teaching,... Read more
Brandon Smith (Lifeway exec and Ridley PhD student) has a new podcast called Church Grammar on behalf of B&H Academic and the Christian Standard Bible. He’s got some cool guests lined up in Lynn Cohick and Tom Schreiner. Be one to subscribe to! Read more
For those interested, I recorded a short course, only 2 hours, with Logos Mobile Ed on The Identity of Jesus. It is in many ways a seminary level summary of NT Christology, covering major bits and pieces, with a view to how you get from Nazareth to Nicea. Only $40.00 and available for pre-order! Course Outline Unit 1: The Historical Jesus Jesus and the Kingdom What Did Jesus Think of Himself? Did Jesus Think He Was God? Unit 2: The... Read more
Wes Hill has a great little piece on “What Makes Romans So Powerful” over at Covenant. Here’s his conclusion Perhaps our era is especially ripe for another liberating encounter with the gospel found in Romans. More than any time I can recall, our cultural moment is marked by a profound awareness of human wickedness. From the #MeToo revelations that showcase human exploitation and hubris, to the ever more dismaying reports on climate change that put human arrogance and acquisitiveness in... Read more
Below is N.T. Wright’s lecture at the Lanier Theological Library on “Resurrection and the Renewal of Creation” Few Christians realize what “resurrection” meant in the first-century world where early Christianity was born. It meant nothing short of “new creation” — the reaffirmation, by the creator God, of the goodness of the original creation, starting with the crucified body of Jesus Himself. Once we grasp this, we see that many lines of thought in the New Testament, particularly in John and Paul,... Read more
My colleague, Scott Harrower, has a new book about to release on God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This Age (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, April 2019). This is a book that combines the new area of trauma studies with the old area of trinitarian theology. Here is the blurb: How does God respond to trauma in a world full of horrors? Beyond their physical and emotional toll, the horrors of this world raise difficult theological and existential questions.... Read more
Kristen Padilla Now That I’m Called: A Guide for Women Discerning a Call to Ministry Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018. Available at Zondervan. By Jill Firth “I have learned that the call is a journey.” At the end of ninth grade, Kristen Padilla’s call was clear, but eighteen years later, the specific direction is still being worked out. Padilla helpfully distinguishes between a call to deliver God’s word, and the shape that might take in serving the church and the... Read more
For those interested in what I’m up to on the publishing side of things, here’s what is scheduled to come out. Soonish First and foremost is The New Testament in its World with N.T. Wright, bigger than Ben Hur, basically the lifetime work of N.T. Wright in NT Intro form with supplements from me and a brilliant design by Zondervan/SPCK. Don’t miss it! Then there is Trinity without Hierachy, co-edited with Scott Harrower, a further word on the Trinity and subordination... Read more
I cannot believe that I forgot to post this, but here an interview I did like a year ago with Tony Merida of Imago Dei Church/Acts29/TGC on “Gospelizing,” “Gracism,” and Church Planting. For those curious, I use the title “gospelizing” to sum up the purpose of theology in my book Evangelical Theology. While the term “gracism,” which is indebted to David Anderson’s book Gracism: The Art of Inclusion, I use in the application of Romans 3:21-31 in my SGBC on Romans. Read more
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