Tom Wright

Nicholas Thomas "Tom" Wright (born 1 December 1948) is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and a leading New Testament scholar. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright but works such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian, which are aimed at a more popular readership, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright. Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland. He was raised in the context... more

Nicholas Thomas "Tom" Wright (born 1 December 1948) is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and a leading New Testament scholar. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright but works such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian, which are aimed at a more popular readership, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright. Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland. He was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism; and, before the age of 7 or 8, he already felt called to go into Christian ministry. He is generally perceived as coming from an open evangelical perspective and is associated with the Third Quest for the Historical Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul, a complex movement with many unique positions (originating from the works of James Dunn and E.P. Sanders.) He argues that the current understanding of Jesus must be connected with what is known to be true about him from the historical perspective of first-century... less