Questions for N.T. Wright

[Ex Nihilo]

I am going to see N.T. Wright speak tomorrow on the topic "Why Do Good in a Hopeless World?". We will have a Q&A session afterwards. I'm not good at coming up with questions to ask. (My questions are always so vague that I don't know how to formulate them.) Do you have any ideas?

 

[Ex Nihilo]

"What's your favorite color?"

"Do you like Hamburgers?"

"So ... what do you think about Justification?"

 

[Ex Nihilo]

WAIT! WAIT! I know I know!

1. "What did Saint Paul really say?"
2. "Does 'N.T.' stand for Not Truly?" (like Not Truly Right ... te he he he)

That is truly hilarious. I could never get the question out because I would be laughing so hard. . .

 

[Prufrock]

Wow. You're on a roll.

 

[TimV]

"You have said we are cutting down the rain forests for the needs of Empire. What specific actions can we take as Christians to prevent this?"

And people in university departments can scream, can deconstruct, can write counter-critical theses till they’re blue in the face. And the empire just goes and destroys another bit of the rain forest, because it needs it for whatever particular economic/political project it’s got.

Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine

"Do you believe that there were man-like precursors to Homo sapiens?"

 

[Scott1]

My impression is this fellow's theology is a big, confusing mess and mass of contradictions.

He has gained a following for himself which has come to be called "New Perspectives on Paul" which then gave rise to an offshoot group "Federal Vision" theology- all of which, in the main, contradict and confuse Reformed theology, the historic confessions, and Scripture.

For these reasons, he gets respectful treatment by the press, liberal academics, and humanist theologians.

Were I to ask him a question, it would be "Why don't you believe the Gospel"? (justification by Christ's righteousness alone).

Unfortunately, Scripture (and our Reformed theology) already tells me the answer.

Titus 3:10

10A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

 

[fredtgreco]

Evie,

You need to ask this:

"Mr. Wright, what do you think, or so to speak, opine - yet not to imply the denigration of an opinion (or for that matter the exaltation thereof), with respect to, or (so to speak) concerning- or rather, in American way of speaking, 'about' the likelihood -not in any way to imply dogmatically the existence of possibility (or non-possibility for that matter) - that at some point in time (to use a crude term of speech, and not intending to offend the chronologically challenged, or so to speak, those who eschew watches) you (and by that I mean you in the singular, as opposed to the "royal you" or covenantal you, and thereby binding othes with who you (once again meaning the singular) converse) will actually express - not limiting this to the spoken word, or words in general - an actual (not to offend those who prefer fantasy, whether Tolkien, Lewis or otherwise, so to speak) firm opinion?"

 

[fredtgreco]

I am going to see N.T. Wright speak tomorrow on the topic "Why Do Good in a Hopeless World?". We will have a Q&A session afterwards. I'm not good at coming up with questions to ask. (My questions are always so vague that I don't know how to formulate them.) Do you have any ideas?

By the way - not a good trait for a future litigator!

 

[Ex Nihilo]

I am going to see N.T. Wright speak tomorrow on the topic "Why Do Good in a Hopeless World?". We will have a Q&A session afterwards. I'm not good at coming up with questions to ask. (My questions are always so vague that I don't know how to formulate them.) Do you have any ideas?

By the way - not a good trait for a future litigator!

Well, this mainly applies to these open-ended Q&A sessions in which people try to come up with clever questions about some notable person's complete body of scholarship. I am not likely to come up with anything novel to ask, so I generally do not ask anything. However, I am good at asking questions about facts and at cross-examination. Not extremely good yet, but I have time to learn!

 

[Scott1]

One other question I might ask,

"How come we couldn't get John Piper to speak tonight"?

 

[Ex Nihilo]

One other question I might ask,

"How come we couldn't get John Piper to speak tonight"?

Actually, we should try to get John Piper!