{"id":3953,"date":"2008-03-04T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T05:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/04\/bishop-tom\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:20:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T05:20:42","slug":"bishop-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/04\/bishop-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just in case you didn\u2019t see this back on the posts on Tom Wright\u2019s book: here is Tom Wright\u2019s letter to us.<!--more|inline--><br>\nJust to say a big Thank you to Scot for giving the book such splendid highlighting and to all who have contributed to a remarkable discussion so soon after its publication. I don\u2019t normally (make that EVER) contribute to blogsites, and sadly won\u2019t be able to enter into any further correspondence just now \u2014 the day job is simply too demanding \u2014 but I think it would be discourteous of me not to acknowledge with deep gratitude all the things that have been said.<br>\nAs I said to someone the other day at the Pastors\u2019 Conference, I find myself often in the position Karl Barth described a propos his Romans commentary: trying to find the way for myself, suddenly a lot of other people seem to be wanting to know as well. He used the image of when, as a boy, he was climbing up the dark staircase in the church tower in the dark and, thinking he\u2019d found a hand-rail, leant his weight on it only to discover it was the bell-rope.<br>\nAs for Peter\u2026 well, sorry. The book wasn\u2019t intended to be exhaustive. I didn\u2019t actually expect the book to be nearly that long. But I did discuss the relevant passages in RSG, of course.<br>\nWarm greetings to one and all and renewed gratitude to Scot (whom I just missed at the pastors\u2019 conference, sadly).<br>\nTom Wright<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you didn\u2019t see this back on the posts on Tom Wright\u2019s book: here is Tom Wright\u2019s letter to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bishop Tom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just in case you didn&#039;t see this back on the posts on Tom Wright&#039;s book: here is Tom Wright&#039;s letter to us. 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