“Jesus and the Powers” with N. T. Wright
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Dr. N. T. Wright joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to discuss Wright’s new book, Jesus and the Powers., co-authored with Michael Bird.
“The Time of Your Visitation” with N. T. Wright
Rev. Dr. N. T. (Tom) Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His work has established him as the foremost voice among New Testament scholars of the present generation, not least due to his many commentaries, topical studies, and the multi-volume, Christian Origins and the Question of God. Is Jesus’ parable of Luke 19:11-27 teaching that the kingdom of God is going to be delayed indefinitely or that it is arriving at that moment with Jesus’ descent upon Jerusalem? Verse 44 of the same chapter and Jeremiah’s use of a key Greek word, among other things, ominously suggests the latter.
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The Early High Christology Club with Carey Newman
The Early High Christology Club (EHCC) was a loose association of scholars from various backgrounds and different religious traditions.
They all became convinced that the early circles of the Jesus movement regarded their Lord as having “high” or divine status.
Carey Newman, executive editor at Fortress Press, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to talk about the beginning and contribution of the “club” to modern scholarship.
Both Capes and Newman were founding members of the club, and unfortunately, they are the only surviving members.
Over the roughly 25 years the club “met,” it boasted some of the most significant voices in New Testament Studies: Larry Hurtado, Alan Segal, Paula Fredriksen, Donald Juel, April DeConick, Martin Hengel, Pheme Perkins, N. T. Wright, Marianne Meye Thompson, Richard Hays and a host of others.
As an informal club, it had no membership. But scholars who heard of the group wanted to become members and own one of the coveted coffee mugs produced by Baylor University Press.
To be a member, a scholar needed to have written books or articles making the case that the evidence demonstrates that Jesus is worshiped from early moments of the movement and set in such close association with God that he could properly be referred to as divine.
After relating the “founding myth” of the organization in the mid-1990s Carey Newman situates the club within the stream of scholarship.
Some regard the worship of Jesus to be a later development in the first century (60-70 years after the execution of Jesus). Others think it happened much later (hundreds of years). But members of the EHCC generally make the case that historically it arose for various reasons within the first decade of the movement.
Several Early High Christology Club members have lectured at the Lanier Library: Larry Hurtado, Richard Hays, Mike Bird, and N. T. Wright. Among the special collections, the library has the libraries of two of the founding members: Alan Segal and Larry Hurtado. It also houses many of the books of Peter Davids and David Capes, two key members.
The late Larry Hurtado’s blog is a good source of information about the club as well as all things New Testament: https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com
The title of the book neither David or Carey could remember was Israel’s God and Rebecca’s Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2007).
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The Romans Road with N. T. Wright
N. T. (“Tom”) Wright, Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to talk about his June 2022 lecture: “The Romans Road: Through the Dark Valley.”
After recounting a bit of his early life, Wright describes what many evangelical Christians know as “The Romans Road.” It is a way of sharing key verses from Paul’s letter to the Romans to help people find salvation. But Wright thinks “salvation” for Paul means something different than what moderns mean by it, that is, going to heaven when we die.
To read Romans well and in context means that we continue to Romans 8. For Wright the story of salvation is a truly human story which includes going through the dark valley.
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Tom Holland
Tom Holland is a wonderful historian and writer who you need to know. He cut his teeth on Greek and Roman culture, which of course intersects with the origins of Christianity.
Here is a link to a good article and series of podcast videos that give a bit more information about him. One of those videos features N. T. Wright.
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