Gifford Lectures 2018 - Professor N.T. Wright - Lecture 8, 7th March 2018
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Professor N.T. Wright of St Andrews University delivers the eighth of the 2018 Gifford Lectures at the Unversity of Aberdeen's King's College Conference Centre
God bless all
Those already suspicious of Tom Wright will be relieved the lectures lacked his own reforms. It is time to tear down strongholds that Tom has already argued make no sense, he has already stirred that hornets nest of the Reformation, though challenging to seminaries Tom has not nailed any actual theses to the invisible Church door. So sad.
I offer Double Justification and Praeterism as mine, both matters of faith, and can bring back the two subjects of the first century since dismissed.
I lack any credentials to speak on the soundness, or even coherence, of the ideas presented in these lectures. I missed much of it as my mind tried to recover from the jargon, the references by number to scripture or the complexity of argument. Still, it seems to me his effort to discern where we are in relation to God, in this tradition, won't wash at all unless we trace the role of the Messiah as a thread manifest in history. Following his argument, a vocation can be discerned. It seems to me if this is going to work at all, it has to do so consequent to an indwelling of the holy spirit, made available through the exalted Jesus. 'The use of the word "ruach" (Hebrew: "breath", or "wind") in the phrase ruach ha-kodesh seems to suggest that Judaic authorities believed the Holy Spirit was a kind of communication medium like the wind. The spirit talks sometimes with a masculine and sometimes with a feminine voice; the word ruacḥ is both masculine and feminine.[35]'
That holy spirit, I'd hold, is a gift of God. It seems to me Jesus was able to bestow it on the disciples, although posthumously. Can one appropriate it? It seems Paul was outside the conferred group. Nevertheless, Jesus asked him a good question. 'Why do you persecute me?'
Gave him something to think about.