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"For me," says N.T.Wright, "there has been no more stimulating exercise, for the mind, the heart, the imagination and the spirit, than trying to think Paul's thoughts after him and constantly to be stirred up to fresh glimpses of God's ways and purposes with the world and with us strange human creatures." Wright's accessible new volume, built on his Cambridge University Hulsean Lectures of 2004, takes a fresh look at Paul in light of recent understandings of his Jewish roots, his attitude toward the Roman Empire, and his unique reframing of Jewish symbols in relation to his experience of the risen Christ. Then Wright attempts a short systematic account of the main theological contours of Paul's thought and its pertinence for the church today.
Part One Themes 1. Paul's World, Paul's Legacy 2. Creation and Covenant 3.Messiah and Apocalyptic 4. Gospel and Empire
Part Two Structures 5. Rethinking God 6. Reworking God's People 7. Reimagining God's Future 8. Paul, Jesus, and the Task of the Church
- Sales Rank: #20885 in Audible
- Published on: 2009-02-12
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 461 minutes
Review
N.T. Wright is one of the premier New Testament scholars in the world right now, but his views not least some of those set out in Paul in Fresh Perspective are quite controversial.
He is part of a group of scholars (by no means agreed among themselves) arguing for the "New Perspective on Paul," or NPP. Wright is the foremost NPP popularizer. He is an engaging speaker and lucid writer who works admirably hard at bringing his view to lay people.
However, Paul in Fresh Perspective is not easy reading and not quite for most lay people. This small book (just 174 pages of text and a few endnotes) comprises the Hulsean Lectures Wright delivered at Cambridge. These lectures, Wright says, are a further development beyond another small book he wrote, What St. Paul Really Said. In Paul in Fresh Perspective Wright hits themes familiar from that earlier book: the narrative of creation and covenant, Messiah and apocalyptic, and gospel and empire.
The most controversial of Wright's emphases are those which have a bearing on justification. He is famous for arguing that justification is not about how you get into God's family; it's proof that you are in. It's God's declaration that you are, in fact, part of His covenant family. He thus questions the traditional Reformation doctrine of imputation.
In the second half of Paul in Fresh Perspective, Wright takes Jewish theology as an organizing principle for laying out a Pauline theology, viewing it through the three primary lenses of monotheism, election, and eschatology. This is a work with a popular look but a scholarly appeal. It appears to be a forerunner to the fourth volume of what will likely prove Wright's magnum opus, the New Testament and the People of
God series. It will bring readers up to date on the thinking of a very good writer and important scholar and theologian. --Mark L. Ward, Jr., Chrisitan Library Journal, June 2007
About the Author
N. T.Wright is the Bishop of Durham and the author of several Fortress Press books, including Jesus and the Victory of God (1996), The Resurrection of the Son of God (2003), The New Testament and the People of God (1992), and The Climax of the Covenant (1992).
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Wrights book, taken from his lectures, gives a solid outline of the Apostle Pauls theology. Simon Vance captures the essence of Wrights treatise, giving full attention to complex details as he explicates Pauls thoughts. Part One of the book discusses Pauls world and his legacy, giving a general introduction to Pauline thought. The following chapters focus on major biblical themes for the purpose of providing a historical and cultural Pauline worldview. With effortless narration, Vance describes Paul as belonging to the called out ones, those set apart for Christ. This is not an easy listen. It should be sipped--like a full-bodied wine. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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70 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
A Solid Survey of Paul's Theology
By Dr. Marc Axelrod
This book grew out of a series of lectures that Dr. Wright gave on the apostle Paul. He begins with a brief overview of the Roman and Jewish and Greek and Christian worlds in which he lived. He follows this up with a chapter on how Paul's understanding of creation and covenant informs his work on the Christ hymn in Colossians 1 as well as the first 11 chapters of Romans. He underscores how Paul redefines God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12 and Genesis 15 as to include Gentiles today, forming one people of God with Israel. He shows how Paul's exposition of the gospel in Romans is a working out of his understanding of the Abrahamic covenant.
There is also a helpful chapter where Wright shows how Paul is underscoring that Christ is the true emperor of the world, and that it is His empire that we belong to, not the empire of Nero.
Wright goes on to talk about the concepts of Messiah and apocalyptic. He contends that apocalyptic in Paul refers to the revelation or uncovering of the mysteries of God in Christ. He disagrees with Kasemann and others who see apocalyptic as a term simply describing the end time.
In part two of this book, Wright discusses how Paul reimagines the Jewish Shema in 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Ephesians 4:4-5 and in Philippians 2, and how this was expressed later on in the formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity.
He also shows how the concept of the people of God has been reworked by Paul to include both Gentiles and Jews. There is also a section where Paul reimagines God's future as being all in all and ruling forever in Christ. He rejects the dispensational model of Jesus coming back to rapture us into heaven where we will forever live with God. He points out how the image of the parousia is that of a people leaving the city to meet their king, and then escorting him back into the city. Therefore, we will meet Jesus in the air and then accompany Him back to the earth.
I thought I was going to disagree at first with Dr. Wright about justification in Paul. But he shows how God declares the sinner to be righteous in Christ when he responds to the call of God and accepts Christ and the gospel (Romans 8:29-30).
I think that this is a very solid outline of Paul's theology. Like Ben Witherington, Wright believes that Paul's thought world is part of the matrix of God's story of creation and covenant and redemption as found in key OT texts such as Genesis 1-3, Psalm 19, Isaiah and Joel. The book is academic, but very readable, and the informed layperson will enjoy it.
62 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
A Good Overview of Wright's Essential Work on the Pauline Epistles
By T. B. Vick
This book is not actually another stab at the "New Perspective" issues on the part of Wright; rather, it is a type of condensed culmination of Wright's work up to this point. However, for those who have not read any of N.T. Wright's works, I would not recommend beginning here.
This book is actually a "tweaked" compilation of Wright's Hulsean Lectures presented at Cambridge University. Wright declares that he revised the lectures a bit for book form, and added chapters to complete the overall thought of the lectures. What is more, Wright, through out this book responds to his critics on certain points. But, the main thrust of this book seems to be a general overview of Wright's work up to this point.
Wright reviews Paul's historical setting in first century, second Temple Judaism, then Wright moves into a discussion of creation and covenant and how these play an important role in Paul's epistles and what Paul is attempting to communicate to his audience regarding Jesus' claims (especially the act of the resurrection). It is actually in this section where Wright, point by point, book and verses by book and verses, details Paul's letters in light of certain Old Testament narratives and God's work in the world to set creation right in the covenant made wit Abraham and the Jewish people.
From these two chapters Wright moves into a discussion of the Messiah (of course, Jesus) and Paul's apocalyptic language and how these things are vital in Paul's covenant theology and their steady progress of historical fulfillment, as Wright declares. Then Wright finishes up this part of the book with the actual gospel and the Roman empire/rule. This, of course, as Wright points out, is the context within which Paul is working and writing. This entire first section, Wright uses to set the groundwork for the environment, thinking, politics, etc. within which Paul is working and writing.
The final section of the book, Wright takes the first section and details why Paul is saying the things he is saying in his epistles. The first section is quite important to understanding the second part. Thus, the book works in a type of systematic exegetical fashion. Once again, Wright intention in this book is not to rehash old "New Perspective" arguments, or attempt to respond to his critics within the context of the "New Perspective" (although he does so on occasion). Rather, Wright, it seems, in this work is laying out on the table, in a nice systematic fashion, his life's work on Paul and Paul's epistles.
The reason I say that this is not a good book to begin with for those who have never read Wright, is the fact that Wright assumes in most of this work that his reader understands the issues he has been dealing with for 30 plus years, and so he does not always simplistic develop his way to his point. Often times Wright simply comes out and begins to discuss certain issues without setting the stage for the reader, assuming the reader has at least a basic understanding of what is going on.
That being said, however, this is a nice overview of Wright's work regarding Paul, and it is new and improved in certain areas, where when you read (for those who have read Wright's previous works) where Wright has improved, changed, and reworked his thinking a bit on certain issues to a higher level.
One of my more favorite chapters in this book is seven, titled "Reimagining God's Future." In this chapter, Wright details Paul's eschatology, especially in light of the purpose and work of the Holy Spirit. These issues Wright has discussed in previous works, but as collectively and succinctly as I think he has done in this work. The chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Overall this is a great addition to my library, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in New Testament studies or those interested in N.T. Wright's work.
99 of 111 people found the following review helpful.
Fresh Perspective is Right
By Erin J
N T Wright has a great writing style that is lucid, insightful and informative. Scholar and student both, can read his books and not be overwhelmed by technical jargon and vocabulary. He brings his great insight into Paul to light in this book that everyone who will attempt to get a grasp on Paul will need to start here (after the Bible of course).
Wright begins by discussing the three worlds of Paul, which were Jewish (this one was foundational), Roman, and Greek. Wright shows how that Paul works out the fulfillment of Israel in Jesus and that being true Israel means that one has put their hope and faith in Jesus and not the Law or Temple. Wright carries this thread throughout his discussion on Paul.
The book has two parts. Part one is themes and they include Creation and Covenant, Messiah and Apocalyptic, Gospel and Empire. Part two is structures and the structures he sees are entitled rethinking God, reworking God's people, reimagining God's future, and then the conclusion, which he has called Jesus, Paul and the Task of the Church.
In Creation and Covenant Wright works out the idea that God created man, man then got himself in a mess through the fall and then God acts to restore his creation through covenant. Abraham and his seed were give the vocation of restoring what Adam had lost by being light to the world. The problem, as Wright so rightly points out, was that the solution (Abraham or Israel) became part of the problem, precisely because the Law was not equipped to change humanity. In the end Jew and Gentile stand unrestored and sinful and in need of redemption.
In the section Messiah and Apocalyptic, Wright shows that Jesus as Israel's true representative has accomplished for humanity what the nation of Israel had failed to accomplished. For Paul the plan of God for Israel had been unveiled and Jesus was the plan all along. God had vindicated the Messiah (Israel's true representative) by resurrecting him from the dead.
The message of Gospel and empire was the proclamation that Israel's Messiah has become Lord of the world. The message is a threat to Caesar, because Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not.
In the second part of the book under Structures Wright speaks of rethinking God and particularly monotheism in light of the person of Jesus. Wright maintains the traditional orthodox view of the divinity of Jesus (nothing to fear here despite what some have said about Wright on this subject), but he holds this in tension with Jewish monotheism. In this same section Wright holds that Paul does not proof text when quoting scripture (the Old Testament), as Sanders suggests, but that Paul takes the full context of the passage into consideration and Wright insists that Paul's message holds continuity with the overall narrative of Israel. I am suggesting the Wright is right on this and that Wright has effectively torn down not only the old liberal or moderate views on this, but the conservative views from the old perspective as well.
In the section on Reworking God's People Wright covers the topic of election. He does not speak of election here in the old Calvinistic perspective, but that God has elected Jesus as Israel's true representative and that they that are in the Messiah are therefore in the elect. If you miss what Wright is saying here then you will miss what is perhaps his biggest contribution and that is that God's people are constituted around faith in Jesus and not circumcision, the Torah, Land, or Temple. He suggests that Paul has reworked God's people around the Messiah and the Spirit. In other words it is no longer the Temple made by hands that the Spirit or presence of God dwells but now in the Temple of believers in the Messiah (Jesus) and it is no longer the Torah that guides the life of Israel, but the Spirit that is to be walked in and the its members are to be led by.
In the section reimagining God's future Wright sees Paul's central point being; God has done in Jesus in the middle of time what normal Jewish expectations thought would happen at the end of time. Jesus has fulfilled the promises of Abraham and David and has brought to an end Jewish eschatological expectations at the cross, resurrections and negatively in 70 AD at the destruction of the Temple. Now an Israel has been reconstituted, humanity has been redeemed and now the future of all of creation is in process as the gospel is preached and the Church or new Israel models the new humanity to the world through living in the Spirit.
The book concludes with a final chapter on Jesus, Paul and the task of the Church. There is much to be interested in that Wright says here, but what I found interesting was his discussion of how Paul sees his own vocation as being the instrument of living out the vocation of light of the world that began in Jesus, but was being lived out in Paul as he carried the message to the Gentiles. It seems that Wright sees the role of the Church (the new Israel) as still being the same as it was for Paul. The task of the Church is to carry the message that exile has ended, a new and true humanity has been constituted, Jesus is Lord and is to be worshipped against all of the other claims of worship in this world.
What does this book mean? In my opinion it means that much of the current preaching from the so-called Christian Zionist perspective is false. This has not been Wrights push, but he accomplishes pointing the way out of the error of this message. It also puts to rest the Old Perspective. Wright points out and deals with justification as God vindicating the people who have put faith in Jesus as Messiah. Justification for Wright is not how to get to heaven, but is the declaration that the whoever answers the call to put faith in Jesus, that one God has and will vindicate. Wright does such a good job here that it is dificult to see how the old perspective can be revived. His case is too good to be ignored. If you are interested in getting at the heart of the gospel message in Paul and in Jesus then get this book.
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