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Ask NT Wright Anything

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The weekly podcast that connects you to NT (Tom) Wright’s thought and theology by allowing you to ask the questions. Produced by Premier Unbelievable and hosted by Mike Bird.


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  • Jul 30, 2019 · 39 min

    #19 Doctrine questions about the Trinity and Baptism

    How does the doctrine of the Trinity work? Do you have to believe it to be a Christian? Where do you find it in the Bible? What does Tom think about the doctrine of baptism?These and more listener questions get addressed by Tom Wright in this episode.For the newsletter, bonus content, prize draws and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor a listener discount on Tom Wright books: http://spckpublishing.co.uk/askntwrightFor Unbelievable? Live in LA https://www.unbelievable.live/Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jul 18, 2019 · 38 min

    #18 Hell and Heaven

    What is the nature of hell and what does Tom believe about it? What about annihilationist or universalist views? Can we be happy in heaven if we know that loved ones won’t be there?These and more listener questions get addressed by Tom Wright in this episode.For the newsletter, bonus content, prize draws and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor the The Lord’s Prayer free video course: www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwrightFor Unbelievable? The Conference 2019 www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievableconference Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jul 2, 2019 · 38 min

    #17 Other religions, the New Age and Islam

    What happens to those who don’t believe in Jesus? What can I say to my New Age sister? My Muslim friend gets so much comfort from her faith... do I need to evangelise her? These and more listener questions get addressed by Tom Wright in this episode.For the newsletter, bonus content, prize draws and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor the SPCK offer on Tom’s best selling titles: www.spckpublishing.co.uk/askntwrightFor Unbelievable? The Conference 2019 www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievableconferenceSubscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jun 18, 2019 · 36 min

    #16 Tom answers questions on prayer

    What’s the point of prayer if God knows our needs? Can we claim ‘anything’ by faith in Jesus name? What do Tom’s prayer habits look like?These and more listener questions get addressed by Tom Wright in this episode.For the newsletter, bonus content, prize draws and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comTo get the video course on the Lord’s Prayer free www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwright For Unbelievable? The Conference 2019 www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable conference (enter SPEAKTRUTH at checkout for 10% discount until 20 June)Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • May 21, 2019 · 30 min

    #14 The Church, worship and unity

    Do you have to go to church to be a Christian? What should our theology of worship be? How do we know we are in the ‘correct’ denomination? Tom Wright answers these and more questions from listeners, and chats with host Justin about Christian unity.For the newsletter, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor Tom’s free video course on The Lord’s Prayer http://ntwrightonline/askntwrightSubscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • May 10, 2019 · 33 min

    #13 Christian sexual ethics, homosexuality and transgender

    In this edition of the podcast Tom answers listener questions on how to have better conversations on sexuality in the church, co-habitation, whether the New Testament understanding of homosexuality was different to today and his thoughts on Transgender following a letter he wrote to The Times newspaper.For the newsletter, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor Unbelievable? the Conference 2019: https://premierchristianradio.com/unbelievableconferenceFor podcast listener discounts on Tom’s books www.spckpublishing.co.uk/askntwright Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Apr 24, 2019 · 37 min

    #12 Genesis, evolution, Adam and Eve and The Fall

    Tom Wright joins Justin to answer listener questions on how to interpret the early chapters of Genesis, what he believes about the nature of Adam and Eve, whether suffering and death existed before the fall and much more… He also pulls out the guitar once more for a Genesis-themed song.For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor Tom’s free video course on The Lord’s Prayer http://ntwrightonline/askntwrightSubscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Apr 9, 2019 · 37 min

    #11 Easter, the Resurrection and thoughts on Jordan Peterson

    As Easter approaches Tom answers a variety of listener questions on the Biblical resurrection accounts, the nature of the resurrection body, why Jesus didn’t stay with us, and also shares his thoughts on popular psychology professor Jordan B Peterson...

  • Mar 12, 2019 · 34 min

    #9 Old Testament violence, Andy Stanley and Greg Boyd

    Tom responds to listener Qs on Andy Stanley ‘unhitching’ Christianity from the Old Testament, the historicity of the Exodus, and the way that Greg Boyd interprets violent portraits of God in ‘The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God’.For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor a 20% discount on The Bible For Everyone go to https://spckpublishing.co.uk/the-bible-for-everyone and enter discount code NTWRIGHT at checkout. For podcast listener discounts on Tom’s video courses www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwrightFor Unbelievable? with Greg Boyd & Paul Copan debating Old Testament warfare and violence:https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Greg-Boyd-Paul-Copan-debate-Old-Testament-violence-and-Boyd-s-new-theology-in-Crucifixion-Of-The-Warrior-Godhttps://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Boyd-Copan-pt-2-debating-Amalekite-destruction-Ananias-and-SapphiraSubscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Feb 26, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min

    #8 Resurrection, hell, universalism, dispensationalism (and much more)

    In an extended edition of the show originally broadcast on the Unbelievable? podcast, Justin asks a variety of listener questions on dispensationalism, John’s gospel, inerrancy, salvation, hell, universalism and Tom’s favourite books, music and much more…For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor a 20% discount on The Bible For Everyone go to https://spckpublishing.co.uk/the-bible-for-everyone and enter discount code NTWRIGHT at checkout. For podcast listener discounts on Tom’s video courses www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwrightFor other Unbelievable? episodes featuring Tom Wright:https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-What-happened-on-the-cross-NT-Wright-Tom-Schreiner.-500th-podcast-episodehttps://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/NT-Wright-James-White-debate-on-St.-Paul-Justification-UnbelievableSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Feb 12, 2019 · 34 min

    #7 Bible infallibility, Sola Scriptura and slavery

    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 tradition, and whether there is a ‘trajectory hermeneutic’ when it comes to issues like slavery in the Bible. For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor a 20% discount on The Bible For Everyone go to https://spckpublishing.co.uk/the-bible-for-everyone and enter discount code NTWRIGHT at checkout. For the poetry book mentioned near the start - ‘Five Quintets’ by Michael O’Siadhail https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Quintets-Micheal-OSiadhail/dp/1481307096Subscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jan 30, 2019 · 33 min

    #6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage

    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 Ephesians 5: 22 ‘wives submit to your husband’? For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comFor podcast listener discounts on Tom’s video courses www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwright For Paula Gooder and Francesca Stavrakopoulou debating sexism and the role of women in the early churchhttps://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Is-Christianity-sexist-Paula-Gooder-Francesca-StavrakopoulouSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jan 16, 2019 · 34 min

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

    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 question sign up at www.askntwright.com For podcast listener discounts on Tom’s video courses www.ntwrightonline.org/askntwright For NT Wright in conversation with Tom Holland https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-NT-Wright-and-Tom-Holland-How-St-Paul-changed-the-worldSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Jan 1, 2019 · 34 min

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

    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 guitar out again…For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a question sign up at www.askntwright.comSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Dec 11, 2018 · 33 min

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

    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.For prize draws and bonus content sign up at www.askntwright.comSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS FeedEnd music: Bach Christmas Oratorio – Wiki Creative Commons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Nov 27, 2018 · 34 min

    #2 Qs on sacrifice, crucifixion and atonement

    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 human camp’.For prize draws and bonus content sign up at www.askntwright.comSubscribe to the podcast via PodBean, iTunes or RSS Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Nov 13, 2018 · 35 min

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

    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 for a copy of ‘Paul: A Biography’ and to receive the bonus video of Tom responding to a question about The Rapture sign up at www.askntwright.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Nov 8, 2018 · 12 min

    Tom and Justin introduce the podcast

    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...