Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians [Paperback]

Tom Wright (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2004 | Series: For Everyone

In this letter Paul confronts dreadful issues of sorrow and hurt, emerging with a clearer picture of what it meant that Jesus himself suffered for us and rose in triumph. The letter itself moves through tragedy and from there leads into the sunlight. N.T. Wright brings out the emotion and the sense of the letter with his highly readable translation and insightful comments.

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About the Author

N.T. (Tom) Wright is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He is a prolific author and noted New Testament scholar, and was named by Christianity Today in 1999 as one of the world's top 5 new theologians. He has written over thirty books, both at the scholarly level (including Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God, and The Meaning of Jesus) and for a popular audience (including The Meal Jesus Gave Us (WJK) and Who Was Jesus?).

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0664227929
• ISBN-13: 978-0664227920
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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N.T. Wright is Bishop of Durham and was formerly Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey and dean of Lichfield Cathedral. He taught New Testament studies for twenty years at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. Wright's full-scale works The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, and The Resurrection of the Son of God are part of a projected six-volume series entitled Christian Origins and the Question of God. Among his many other published works are The Original Jesus, What Saint Paul Really Said and The Climax of the Covenant. He is also coauthor with Marcus Borg of The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions and the volume on Colossians and Philemon in The Tyndale New Testament Commentary series.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great One from Tom Wright, July 14, 2007

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DarrenGJohnson "DarrenGJohnson" (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

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Tom Wright (aka N T Wright)is the most insightful and unique conservative scholar to come along. He has shared with us his great gift of, not only his theology, but his whimsical writing, anectdotes, story telling and of course the most important of all correct interpretation and translation of the text itself. Wright is not only a theologian, but is as much a historian. I recommend the entire everyone series from him. You will not regret buying these easy to read, entertaining, and remarkably insightful books.

Wright gets Paul and this work on 2 Corinthians is proof of it. There is much here to commend, but let me just talk about on insightful aspect of this book In 2 Corinthians 4:13 Paul quotes from Psalm 116:10 a simple little line of "I believe and therefore I spoke." Wright sees behind this quote a text that Paul had personally been ministered to from. It is this Psalm that carried him though when he felt in chapter 1 that he had the death sentence passed upon him. Wright takes the time to quote the entire Psalm and show briefly how Paul worked it in. The only problem with the Everyone Commentary series is that they leave you wanting Wright to explore even deeper with you the ramification of something like this in Paul.

This commentary is a brief read that will leave you with a greater grasp on the life of Paul and on 2 Corinthians.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy all of these great little commentaries, August 21, 2006

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I read commentaries. I read many different types of books but I actually sit down and read commentaries. But this little book and all the others Wright has written in his series is a shear delight to read. If you are looking for something to replace the old Barclay commentaries you have found it. Wright is one of the brightest Biblical scholars on the planet. I often read his sholarly writings. So it is really something to find these small but profound, entertaining and enlighting books. His personal translation of the the verses he is commenting on is better than any present version I have read. I hope the publisher decides to give us a Wright translation of the NT!!! Purchase them all - you will not regret one of them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars NT Wright's alter ego, April 20, 2009

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NT Wright - scholar, bishop of Durham, Colbert Report veteran - is publishing a new series of "light" commentaries..the "for Everyone" series, under the appropriately Common nomer "Tom Wright" (they started out with "NT Wright" and moved later to just "Tom" on the covers).

You will rarely get a better, easier reading, more accessible commentary that is helpful both for preachers and laity. Passages are broken down into devotional-length analysis and comment, with a small bit of application as sort of "starter dough" for the reader.

DONT use this to write your thesis.

DO use this to be more effective at explaining scripture, leading a small group, or engaging other in dialogue regarding Pauline literature.