The Vision of Ephesians

by N.T. Wright, Unknown Author

Paperback

About the author

N. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England (2003-2010) and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline NBC, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air, and he has taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford universities. Wright is the award-winning author of Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Last Word, The Challenge of Jesus, The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg), as well as the much heralded series Christian Origins and the Question of God.

He also publishes under Tom Wright.

Reviews

[Frank Peters]

This is one of Prof. Wright’s more accessible books. The experience of reading it reminds me much more of listening to him speak than reading many of his books. This makes sense, since he states that the book was based on a series of talks that he developed. In many respects this is unfortunate, because when preparing a talk, one inevitably removed important material due to time constraints. This transferred into the book, where too often it felt that important material was glossed over. What the book did contain was excellent. I really like the authors insights and balance between applied and theoretical theology. The problem with the book was with it did not contain. I already discussed that parts of Ephesians were essentially neglected (the book was too short). I have a stronger complaint with the publisher rather than the author (I hope that is correct). Prof. Wright tell us that he has based the book on his translation of Ephesians (so far so good), but then none of his translation is included! This was very poor book design. How hard would it be to include the scriptural portion at the beginning of each chapter (or section)? Why wouldn’t this be done, given that the publisher of the book is the same publisher of his New Testament translation? This was very bad style, and I honestly cannot think of any good excuse for doing this (I can unfortunately think of some bad excuses, but don’t want to go there).