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As you know if you read this blog regularly, NT Wright is the theologian that I\u2019ve been influenced by most. Here, I give an excerpt of an interview he did with my friend Frank Viola. Frank is a voice in the church that trancends our left \u2013 right divide. He is a teacher that I highly respect. Sure I nuance certain things differently on some issues, but he is a voice the church so desperately needs.<\/p>\n

He has a new book out with Lenard Sweet called\u00a0\u00a0Jesus: A Theography<\/a>. I\u2019m looking forward to thumbing through it when I get the chance. Frank also just started a new blog here at Patheos<\/a>. Check it out and subscribe!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt from an interview he posted with NT Wright<\/a>:<\/h2>\n

Frank:\u00a0<\/strong>What are the three main objections (or\u00a0<\/strong>misrepresentations<\/strong>) of your work among evangelical Christians, and what are your responses to those objections or misrepresentations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

N.T. Wright: People have sometimes said, ridiculously, that I don\u2019t believe in the second coming, because I insist that in the New Testament a reference to \u2018the son of man coming on the clouds\u2019 is to Jesus\u2019 vindication (in resurrection, ascension, and not least in the destruction of the Jerusalem that had opposed and rejected him) rather than to his return. The second coming is taught all over the place, and I have expounded it, I hope biblically, in Surprised by Hope.<\/p>\n

Second, people have sometimes said that I downplay the divinity of Jesus (someone once accused me even of denying the virginal conception). This is a serious misunderstanding. I have done my best, rather, to oppose modern forms of Docetism (the view that Jesus wasn\u2019t really human, but only \u2018seemed\u2019 to be). Some modern Docetists, not surprisingly, see this as a denial of Jesus\u2019 divinity. I hope the present book (Simply Jesus<\/a>), and its sequel\u00a0How God Became King<\/a>, will put the record straight on this one.<\/p>\n

Third, many have been puzzled at my embrace of (one form of) what has been called the \u2018New Perspective\u2019 on Paul. Actually, one of the key things about the NP, at its best, is that it take seriously the larger vision of God\u2019s purposes for his people and for the whole creation that we find precisely in the four gospels. Often evangelicals have offered a would-be \u2018Pauline\u2019 gospel which not only doesn\u2019t do justice to Paul but leaves no room for the four gospels. That has to be wrong, and I\u2019ve tried to show how.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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