Tom Wright for Everyone

Tom Wright for Everyone

In 2011 Stephen wrote Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T Wright into practice in the local church.

Tom Wright, formerly Bishop of Durham and Professor of New Testament and Early Church History at the University of St Andrews, is probably the leading biblical scholar in the world today and has written over seventy books setting out a radically fresh way of interpreting the New Testament. Wright’s scholarship has met with widespread acclaim partly for the way in which it has addressed weaknesses within evangelical theology and opened people’s eyes to how much more radical the Bible is than has previously been supposed. However there has also been a great deal of deliberate non-engagement with Wright’s thought both within the world of academic biblical scholarship and, more seriously, within many evangelical churches where it has been correctly sensed that the implementation of his insights will significantly change the agenda. Stephen wrote Tom Wright for Everyone specifically to challenge this.

Published by SPCK, the book offers a summary of Wright’s thought to try and make it more accessible, partly by integrating it within the story of Stephen’s own theological development. The most important sections of Tom Wright for Everyone, however, are the three chapters which seek to show how the theology of Tom Wright has transformed the approach taken to pastoral care, mission and church life generally at Christ Church, New Malden.

Shortly after its publication, Stephen gave a talk about this book at Christ Church, which you can listen to below.