NT Wright

I have finally gotten around to my final post on the Borg/Wright book. Sorry to all two of you who were waiting! My main thought is just about NT Wright. He is an excellent writer and theologian. He seems to me like a new CS Lewis. The parallels between them are numerous. Both are Brits and very Anglican. Both are excellent writers and prolific writers. Both are beloved by evangelicals and both are certainly not evangelical. Both help people realize that they can be Christian and leave their brain at the door. I think that I need to continue to read more Wright. Maybe you all will hear more about Wright here in the future.

Lewis had some very odd views once you got deep into his writings, and Wright is parallel with that. Wright, for example, has fellowship with Borg, which is certainly not something I would do, and does not believe in the Second Coming. It’s not just that he is not premillennial, he does not believe in a second coming, period.

There are differences, of course, between them. Lewis is a literary critic and Wright is a theologian. We should no more expect Lewis to write massive theological tomes than Wright to pen children’s fiction. Because of their respective backgrounds I think that Lewis is a better writer, but Wright a better theologian. But both are well worth reading!

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