Summer reading: “Welcome to the [Wright] Revolution!”

(N.T. Wright sings “Genesis” at Hearts and Mind, https://vimeo.com/4214987)

"How God Became King" cover

Last week Mike asked what’s on our various summer reading lists. I’m going to be reading some works by the story-telling minstrel Rt. Rev. N.T. (Tom) Wright, Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. As some of you know Rt. Rev. N.T. (Tom) Wright has recently blessed a number of groups with singing as part of his speaking tour. On Saturday, I had the privilege of hearing him share “Genesis”* and  Bob Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In” at Hearts & Minds Books, Dallastown, PA. Thank-you to Byron for hosting the garden party and keeping me “on top of” N.T. Wright’s publications through posts such as this one! I’m starting my summer reading with Tom’s Targum and then will move to the controversy regarding How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels (HarperOne, 2012).**

What do you think of the “Wright’s revolution?” Will you be reading some of his work this summer? Any interest in an on-line book discussion? Feel free to start making comments here :)

(N.T. Wright sings Bob Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In”, https://vimeo.com/42149870)

* A song he wrote with Francis Collins while in the midst of BioLogos Conferencing . . . inspired by a taxi driver who sang “Yesterday” to his wife while in Rome.

** “James K.A. Smith’s brief musings (“Kings, Creeds, and Canons”) about a Wright lecture (presented at Calvin College a few months back, you can watch it here).” — Byron, N.T. Wright: A Bookseller’s Appreciation for a Scholar’s Service to the Church and World. (And a reader’s guide to his best books.)