The Disappointing Supersessionism of N.T. Wright
I have mentioned from time to time several things about N.T. Wright. One, that I am a massive fan and that two of his books, The New Testament and the People of God and Jesus and the Victory of God,...
View ArticleMessianic Gentiles: Tent of David #4
There are two things I hope you don’t miss in this article. One is the somewhat radical suggestion (as Christians will see it) that the Church has forgotten its root and needs to change. The second is...
View ArticleThe Gospel from the Gospels #1
I have been asked by a congregant and a friend to answer an important question. My friend came out of the paradigm of faith that is familiar to many MJ Musings readers, the world of a simplistic...
View ArticleThe Gospel from the Gospels #2
A friend and I are co-teaching a group north of Atlanta that wants to learn the history and context behind the New Testament. My friend, Steve Purtell, said in the first session, “These are the things...
View ArticleJames – Jerusalem – Jews – Gentiles #1
Though it might seem in our modern world as if Jewish-Gentile issues are of minor importance, the fact is half the world looks to the Jew, Jesus, as the bearer of light and truth. It is easy for...
View ArticleJames – Jerusalem – Jews – Gentiles #3
The book of Acts organizes the early years of the Yeshua-movement into two periods. The first, lasting roughly fourteen years (30-43 CE), saw the movement led by the Twelve, who saw the legacy of...
View ArticleA Long Journey into the Paul of N.T. Wright: The Beginning
At a key point in my life, the writings of N.T. Wright rescued me from a foolish kind of biblicism in which I was trapped. What I have learned since then is it was called “biblical” only readings of...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on N.T. Wright’s Paul Book
Yawn . . . after waiting a decade for N.T. Wright’s monumental book on Paul (2,200 pages), what a disappointment! Unity of the body is what mattered to Paul, he says, but it is wrong to achieve unity...
View ArticlePAUL: THE NEW PERSPECTIVE, PART 1.
I am working bit by bit on a book for release in 2015, Paul in Jewish Context. I want to examine Paul’s life and thought. I plan to explain Paul as a Jewish teacher of Gentiles. I want to show...
View ArticlePAUL: THE NEW PERSPECTIVE, PART 2.
To those of us who have learned to read Paul as being at the culmination of Judaism and not as the its destroyer, reading New Perspective writers is at once liberating and instructing. As I worked...
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