{"id":27194,"date":"2014-11-15T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27194"},"modified":"2014-11-15T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T21:00:57","slug":"n-t-wright-on-paul-and-the-invention-of-christian-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/11\/n-t-wright-on-paul-and-the-invention-of-christian-theology.html","title":{"rendered":"N. T. Wright on Paul and the Invention of Christian Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"N.T. Wright: Panel Discussion on Pauline Theology with Faculty\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNzcwo6opqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/n-t-wright-why-and-how-paul-invented.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/tom-wright-panel-discussion-with.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NT Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mark Goodacre\u2019s NT Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":11386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,101],"tags":[720,1835,1846,7862,8815,12508],"class_list":["post-27194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul-and-his-letters","category-theology","tag-apostle","tag-christian","tag-christianity-religion","tag-n-t-wright","tag-paul","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>N. 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