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1 posted on 01/04/2007 7:42:59 AM PST by sionnsar
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2 posted on 01/04/2007 7:43:45 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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3 posted on 01/04/2007 7:44:19 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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Bishop Wright, although a self-identified British evangelical (theologically different than an American evangelical) and a champion against radical revisionists, such as those of the Jesus Seminar, is not an orthodox Anglican. In his teaching and promotion of the Sanders/Dunn "New Perspective on Paul" school of Pauline exegesis, Wright has openly denied the substitutionary atonement of Christ, and attempted to redefine justification.

It is no wonder Wright brought up the "Judiazer"example in his writing here, as the basis of "New Perspective" theology is that Christianity was merely an extension of 1st Century Judaism, which was not the legalism which Protestant theology from Luther onwards has understood as a given. Wright has said that on the most fundamental level, Protestant theology has been completely wrong on the issue of justification...that central issue of contention with Rome.

The Jerusalem Church was under the authority of James and likely a few of the 12 too, there's no evidence that the Judiazer party controlled the Jerusalem Church...they merely CLAIMED it's authority, when meddling with the new gentile Churches in Asia. Had the Judaizers completely taken over in Jerusalem, I have no doubt Paul would not have been raising money for them from the gentile churches...but we know from the history in Acts that simply was not the case.

With the overwhelming control of revisionists of churches and even whole dioceses....in old longstanding positions of authority, the situation today is entirely different than that of the 1st Century Judaizers. 50 or 100 years ago the situation may have been more similar...when the theologically liberal were the unusual avant garde, filling the minds of the gullible with odd anti-orthodox ideas (like the Judiazers), but they are the very firm establishment now, on both sides of the Atlantic.

I've heard Wright speak at a C. S. Lewis institute conference, and I've read a couple of his books--and besides being an excellent communicator, he's very good on a number of things. However, we cannot compare him to John Stott or J. I. Packer in terms of orthodoxy. Giving away justification is a pretty big deal (a lot bigger deal than calling for tolerance for annihilationists...as Stott has done), in my opinion, even if Wright is courageously orthodox about most other things.


4 posted on 01/04/2007 7:58:32 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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