DA Carson on NT Wright’s Wrongs and the Errors of the New Perspective
If you are interested in understanding the New Perspective on Paul - especially as articulated by NT Wright - and why some of us at Stand Firm think it’s not only untenable as an interpretive framework for the New Testament but also comes dangerously close to undermining the gospel, this series of lectures by DA Carson is fantastic. It will take you about three hours but it’s well worth the time.
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I hope Stand Firm folks know of a new series from The Latimer Trust which focus on the Formularies of the C of E. The first booklet is ‘The Very Pure Word of God’ by Peter Adam.
http://www.latimertrust.org/
[1] Posted by jbasinger on 7-28-2012 at 12:13 PM · [top]
One simple critique of the “New Perspective” as relates to N. T. Wright’s notion that all of Jesus’ ministry and self understanding revolve around “the return from exile” and the reconstitution of Israel around Jesus as a part of the “return from exile” is this: the New Testament author’s, and Jesus, never actually use this language…ever. You will nowhere find Jesus saying, or another NT author saying, “return from exile”. Rather, other types of language and imagery is regularly used, such as the new creation, new exodus, and so on. Just my two cents.
[2] Posted by justice1 on 7-29-2012 at 06:04 PM · [top]
hi justice1,
I think there is, to be fair, certainly a stream of “return from Exile” language in the NT, even on the first page!
Matthew builds his genealogy around the Exile as one of the markers and then returns to the theme with the allusion to “Rachel weeping for her children” which Jeremiah used to speak of the Babylonian captivity.
If you concede that the return from Exile is another “exodus” (and I think there’s a good case for it) then some of the Exodus language in the NT (Luke in particular) points you that way too as does the “I will be your people” language. In fact much of the covenantal stuff that is resolved in the exodus to the Promised Land is recapitulated in the return from Exile.
That being said, it’s not the overarching paradigm that Wright wants it to be. It’s just a helpful strand of Biblical Theology.
[3] Posted by David Ould on 7-29-2012 at 06:09 PM · [top]
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