Dane Ortland: N.T. Wright's Latest Book is 'Spiritually Dangerous'
Christian author and publisher Dane Ortlund recently wrote a blog post condemning Christian scholar and theologian N. T. Wright’s latest book The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion.
Ortlund lists a few key issues he has with Wright’s book. The first issue he says has to do with the false dichotomies Wright draws. A few of the examples he cites include these quotations from the book:
What if, instead of a disembodied "heaven," we were to focus on the biblical vision of "new heavens and new earth?" (p. 49)
The human problem is not so much "sin" seen as the breaking of moral codes . . . but rather idolatry and the distortion of genuine humanness it produces. (p. 74)
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