Don't worry but I'm 25% wrong - NT Wright

[colinlindsay]

What do you people who hold a high view of preaching and scripture think of the Bishop of Durham being honest enough to confess that probably 25% of what he preaches and believes now may be wrong?

If with all his learning, he can only aspire to that level of certainty what does that say about reformed people who hold that all truth is there to be found in it's entirety - everything that God has put in His word is there to be found.

 

[davidoffinland]

From Finland.

When or where did he say that? I view 2 of his sites, ntwright and the wrightsaid on yahoo? Link?

Question: Did he say "wrong" or doesn´t "believe" in it?

Shalom, David.

 

[dcyates]

What do you people who hold a high view of preaching and scripture think of the Bishop of Durham being honest enough to confess that probably 25% of what he preaches and believes now may be wrong?

If with all his learning, he can only aspire to that level of certainty what does that say about reformed people who hold that all truth is there to be found in it's entirety - everything that God has put in His word is there to be found.

Could you please provide your source for this? I try to keep pretty up-to-date with practically everything N.T. Wright both writes and says and I have yet to come across a statement like this. (I'm not saying you're lying. I just want to see the entire context within which he would make such an admission.)

 

[humbledbyhim]

What do you people who hold a high view of preaching and scripture think of the Bishop of Durham being honest enough to confess that probably 25% of what he preaches and believes now may be wrong?

If with all his learning, he can only aspire to that level of certainty what does that say about reformed people who hold that all truth is there to be found in it's entirety - everything that God has put in His word is there to be found.

I believe that he needs some serious prayer. Not much else to say.

 

[colinlindsay]

Read the discussion on the SemperReformada section.
This is entirely sympathetic.

Actually he made the comments at a Salt and Light conference in Eaglescliffe Co Durham UK in early March sharing a platform with Martin Goldsmith

 

[ischus]

For those who are still interested, here is Wright's statement in a better context:

“…It is as though God is determined to work, not by parachuting this pure solution that we would all like, into the world, but rather by working from within his creation. That is part of the creator God’s commitment to creation—that he would not work as though to obliterate it, but from within. Thank God for that, because neither I nor you nor any of us would be here if God needed, to bring in his kingdom, people who has absolutely nothing wrong with them—no muddles, no misunderstandings, no mistakes. I used to say to my students in Oxford that maybe a quarter of what I was telling them was seriously flawed; the problem is I didn’t know which quarter it was. In other words, whenever you’re listening to anyone you need to listen critically because we’re all muddled and all make many mistakes. It’s part of the risk of being a teacher in the Kingdom of God, and I still know that only too well…”