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Over at CT is a big write up on Surprised by N.T. Wright<\/a>, which talks about Wright\u2019s writing ministry and how it is effecting the church. I loved the part about Wright being bigger than Bultmann:<\/p>\n

Now picture Wright as a student attending similar lectures. How could one overturn this status quo? What scholar could dethrone, say, theologian Rudolf Bultmann? Not so much in the weeds of Bultmann\u2019s thought\u2014he\u2019s hardly read that carefully any more, and two generations of theologians and biblical scholars have critiqued and overturned him. But more for Bultmann\u2019s position of eminence\u2014the way he turned subsequent scholars into modernist questioners. Wright mentions Bultmann like an upstart prizefighter speaks of the reigning champ, as if he were saying, \u201cLet me at him.\u201d For Bultmann, Scripture is true only in our souls, and always wrong in its claims about history, miracles, and politics. Who could overturn him?\u00a0The scholar would have to be prolific; to return to the biblical default would require more than a monograph or two. Tenure at a world-class institution would not be enough. The scholar would have to be readable, urgent, and intense. He or she would have to be compelling to college sophomores and Ehrman readers alike. To pass through the challenge of historical criticism (which scissors out Scripture that doesn\u2019t fit modern beliefs about historical reliability) and come out the other side\u2014to be more critical than even the critics. And he or she would have to exalt Jesus as Lord. Threading such a needle would seem impossible.\u00a0Except that it\u2019s now been done.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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