The N.T. Wright Podcast

Tom Wright is unquestionably one of the most influential NT scholars of our generation. It’s hard to overestimate the influence he has had on the Church’s understanding of Jesus and Paul.<br /><br />But what makes this great man tick? We asked you what you’d like to know about the man behind the theology. As a result, we ended up asking him everything from what his favourite childhood book was, to how he manages his work/life balance, through to which three people he’d most like to invite to dinner!<br /><br />Want more Tom? Then you could spend the rest of your life reading his many many books. Or, alternatively, listen to our three previous interviews with him <audio controls=""><source src="http://traffic.libsyn.com/nomad/Nomad_85_Tom_Wright_4.mp3"></source></audio>

Tom took some time to talk with Shane Blackshear on his podcast <a href="http://www.shaneblackshear.com/ntwright">Seminary Dropout</a> in May of 2015. <br /><br />Some things discussed on the show…<br /><br /><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…associating Reformed theology with people like John Piper, Tim Keller, and others with similar theology, and that sometimes causes confusion to know that Wright&nbsp;sees much of his own views in line with reformed tradition, when it seems like his&nbsp;tone is much different that those people just mentioned.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…how do we know that God intended for his authority to be given through scripture. In other words how do we know that some day we’re not going to stand before God with him saying ‘Hey the Bible was just words that were written several thousands years ago by people who were just describing their experiences with me the best they can but it wasn’t suppose to be anything more to you than inspirational and a lose guide’ ?</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">….in the new introduction The Challenge of Jesus, Wright&nbsp;spent some time talking about the idea that he&nbsp;originally wrote TCoJ on the other side Sept 11, 2001. In what ways Wright&nbsp;thinks that changes our perspective on the words&nbsp;</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">he&nbsp;wrote in TCoJ?</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…what view the reformation brought&nbsp;of Jesus that was a change from the old view.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…what view the enlightenment brought.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…the historicity of Jesus and how the oral tradition worked.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…the parable of the sower in Mark 4:1-20.&nbsp;What we usually miss by not paying attention to Jesus’ Jewish roots.</span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">…how all of this relates to the Christian task and vision today.</span></div> <audio controls=""><source src="http://traffic.libsyn.com/seminarydropout/NT_Wright_for_publication.mp3"></source></audio>

Trevin Wax interviewed Bishop NT Wright for the Said At Southern Podcast. You can find a <a href="http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/trevin-wax-interview-with-nt-wright-full-transcript/" title="Trevin Wax NT Wright Interview">full transcript of the conversation</a> on his website <a href="http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/">Kingdom People</a>. This podcast was recorded on the campus of <a href="http://www.asburyseminary.edu/">Asbury Theological Seminary</a> on November 15, 2007.

N.T. Wright is back for a third time to talk to the guys over at Nomad Podcast back in October of 2013.<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Okay, so perhaps on a popular level a new N. T. Wright book launch doesn’t quite match the razzmatazz of Rob Bell, but for those with a hunger for some meaty theology (written in a pleasingly engaging style), then it doesn’t get much bigger than this.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tom Wright is a rare breed. He somehow manages to bridge the divide between the academy and the pew (his academic stuff written as N. T. Wright, and his more popular stuff written as Tom Wright). He moves in traditional and emerging circles. And he’s a professional theologian who has a real, living faith.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">What a guy!</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div>And I got to talk with him (for the third time)!<br /><br />As with every time I hear Tom Wright speak, I’m left with a multitude of things to ponder. I was particularly struck this time though by his answer to my question ‘What do you think would be Paul’s message to the church today?’. Now obviously Tom can’t <i>know</i>the answer to this question, but he probably knows Paul better than anyone (he’s just finished a 1860 page book on him for goodness sake!). And Tom felt Paul would be deeply concerned with the disunity in the church. <audio controls=""><source src="http://traffic.libsyn.com/nomad/Nomad_Extra_Tom_Wright.mp3"></source></audio>

Another interview of N.T. Wright from the Nomad Podcast back in October of 2011.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tom Wright was in town recently for the British New Testament Conference, so we took the opportunity to drag him away from his lunch (and a heated debate with a colleague) and ask him a few questions about his new job, his new book, and whether God is going to blow this world up.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The belief that God is going to destroy this planet before he makes a new one has been around for a while. It strikes me though that this belief isn’t going to do much to motivate care for the environment (why bother reducing our carbon footprint if God is going to turn every atom of the universe into the mother of all atomic bombs?!).</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as Nomad finds itself increasingly concerned about the environment, we thought we’d better track Tom down and get him to sort this one out once and for all. And I think he did a pretty good job.</span></span><audio controls=""><source src="http://traffic.libsyn.com/nomad/Nomad_31_tom_wright_academia_the_new_earth_and_simply_Jesus.mp3"></source></audio>