Ask NT Wright Anything

NT (Tom) Wright is one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars and the author of many academic and lay-level books on theology and the Christian life. This fortnightly podcast connects you to NT (Tom) Wright’s thoughts and theology by allowing you to ask questions.

Presented by Justin Brierley

#7 Bible infallibility, Sola Scriptura and slavery

12 Feb 2019
31:26

How should we treat the Bible? Inerrant? Infallible? Does it contain errors? Tom  answers questions on the nature of the Bible as well as related issues such as whether the Reformers were right to concentrate solely on scripture rather than church tr...

#6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage

30 Jan 2019
30:40

Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such as Ephesi...

#5 Qs on the life of St Paul, justification and predestination

16 Jan 2019
31:07

Tom Wright talks to Justin about his new book Paul: A Biography and takes listener questions on ‘justification’, election and salvation and what three things he would ask Paul if he were alive today.  For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a quest...

#4 Qs on Mission, Evangelism, Islam and other religions

1 Jan 2019
31:25

In this episode Tom Wright fields listener questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world, returning to a message of repentance, whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God, and how to talk about Jesus with a Muslim. And Tom gets his gui...

#3 Qs on Christmas, the historical Jesus, Bart Ehrman & The Ascension

11 Dec 2018
30:12

Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described. Fo...

#2 Qs on sacrifice, crucifixion and atonement

27 Nov 2018
31:32

Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at hu...

#1 Qs on Heaven, the Kingdom of God and the return of Christ

13 Nov 2018
32:13

In the first full episode of the show, Tom Wright answers listener questions on how to teach children about new creation, where our loved ones go after they die, and responds to a critique from William Lane Craig.  BONUS CONTENT:  To enter the draw f...

Tom and Justin introduce the podcast

8 Nov 2018
10:22

Register for updates, exclusive content and to ask your question at www.askntwright.com NT (Tom) Wright is the former Bishop of Durham, a celebrated Bible scholar, author, and Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Universi...