Wellington Institute of Theology (WIT)

28/05/2023

Oh Yes 😀

This is "Brian Zahnd - Reading the Bible Right" by Plain Truth Ministries on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

21/04/2021

An invitation to spend 45 minutes with a passionate Italian :) A majestic 900 page, $500 tome on universalism/apokatastasis among the church Fathers has now been complemented by something a little more digestible for the rest of us. See comment.

An interview with Ilaria Ramelli, a highly respected patristic scholar, on the subject of universal salvation

29/03/2021

Tom Wright on preaching the cross in 2021.

The Cross as important as ever, but communicating this in ways that make sense of today's world can be difficult. This free ebook will prepare teachers to preach the good news of Jesus resurrection in today's world.

10/01/2021

The gathering Storm? A review of Bentley Hart's "That All May be Saved". https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iCgJd9W6QaudLInv83WulbtQ2qHsQ7Oc/view?fbclid=IwAR2tKZKooReQhGRCxG8WIoWLOBJ9tctRhRe4gqx3gFK0RhYnX8SGKGhUlvw

30/03/2020

A Covid reflection from NT Wright.

It's not supposed to

28/03/2020

What kind of life is worthy of our humanity? What is faith in the time of a pandemic? Miroslav Volf introduces "For the Life of the World," a podcast series featuring the faculty and staff of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.

26/02/2020

As has become a tradition here on the blog, I’ve compiled a list of 40 ideas that I hope will help you make the most of this season of reflection, penitence, and preparation. Some ideas are repeats from previous years, while others are new. Please feel free to add your own ideas and recommendation...

11/12/2019

Surely one of the most peace-making contributors to the discussions about Paul's theology is Michael Gorman who grabs what is good from the big bag of the past, ignores what is not so good (without polemical dismissals), and adds his own wisdom. He contributes by putting this all into a new package....

19/11/2019

I’m quite pleased to announce today the release of The New Testament in Its World (amzn.to/2NIdosS), now available widely, the culmination of a project I’ve been working on for the last few years with my colleague Michael Bird. It is my first comprehensive, single-volume introduction to the New Testament and the development of Christianity in a single volume. Along with the book, Mike and I created a companion video lecture series filmed at multiple key biblical locations from Jerusalem to Rome.

This new book and lecture series follow the line of the big project that I've been working on for many years, the book series called Christian Origins and the Question of God. So The New Testament in Its World starts by looking at the New Testament in its whole context and asking important questions:

-How do we think like the first Christians? How do we make sense of the New Testament in the context of first century Judaism and the Greco-Roman world?
-How then do we read the New Testament responsibly for today?
-How do we read the New Testament as history? How do we “do” history?
-How do the New Testament writings fit within the context of first century literature?
-How do we think theologically so as to understand the New Testament’s purpose, and hear its summons to us today?

Then, since the New Testament focuses on Jesus, the book and lectures move on to examine Jesus—who he was, what he did, and why he did it and what the rest of the New Testament has to say about it.

My hope is that when people really get to grips with the material here, all sorts of new insights will come to them, because many Christians in the West often just go with the flow of our culture, which reduces Christian faith to simply a means of going to heaven when you die. When we're confronted with the fact that Christianity is about something more—that it’s also about what happens here and now—that comes as quite a shock to many people.

Some people may be afraid of thinking like this. But for many people, hearing the summons of the New Testament opens their eyes to a much bigger picture of what it meant to be a Christian in the first century, and what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century.

There’s a lot at stake in these issues. If people don't come to grips with this kind of thing, then Jesus and his first followers may simply become teachers of a religion, offering this escape hatch to heaven and not much more. I would love to think that The New Testament In Its World will have an impact on the ways people think about these issues and open their eyes to the real Christian hope.

The Christian hope is the resurrection of Jesus, which God had long planned to begin the new creation. And ultimately, the point of reading the New Testament with its history in mind is to get at its theology and then to take part in, to share in, and to become part of God’s new creation.

That is our hope for this book and lecture series. It’s a big hope but I believe that this material will enable people to turn around and face full on the glorious reality that the New Testament is actually about and make it their own.

I hope you consider picking up a copy of this book and this course. You can do so at NewTestamentWorld.com.

11/11/2019

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/11/11/88767/?fbclid=IwAR17nmK439xz9IhlpaG5KPP9wBOSIiNvGJvqGZMmph_60u0bvZ2Hn2RPYcQ

Michael Gorman has fashioned a Pauline and NT theology rooted in cruciformity, and his approach is a NT theology, a NT ethic, and a NT ecclesiology. As such his work is a singularly important contribution to NT studies. His newest collect of essays expresses that theology in shorter chapter length

30/10/2019

Is Allah God? If the answer to this question were simple, Professor Miroslav Volf would not have written a whole book on the subject. Still, in this engaging...