Gifford Lectures 2018 - Professor N.T. Wright - Lecture 1, 12th February 2018

Professor N.T. Wright of St Andrews University delivers the first of the 2018 Gifford Lectures at the Unversity of Aberdeen's King's College Conference Centre

[busby]

this lecture opened my eyes about the nature of the Enlightenment, providing information and context that I never encountered in college history courses

[theohuioiesin]

This lecture clearly shows to me that real education and understanding is rare.

Most information seems partisan today.
If it is good it is “my ideology” if it is evil it is “their ideology”.

The moral smugness described is perfected in what many calls the most atheistic nation in the world. The country where I was born and raised:
Sweden.

[danhatechav]

Really appreciate these lectures being uploaded! I had tickets booked but unfortunately could not attend on the day. Great continuation of the Gifford Lectures.

[ibperson]

“Postmodernism itself directly challenges the narrative of progress.“
Yep. “Wisdom does not progress chronologically.”
If anything, just the opposite. Our ancient ancestors, naturally engaged in rapid maturing and adulthood, endless unplugged solitude, exercise, kinship, fasting, hard work, suffering, exposure to death… Knew a LOT more about God and life than we do.

[John-eljv]

PART ONE: Natural Theology in Its Historical Context
Lecture 1. The Fallen Shrine: Lisbon 1755 and the Triumph of Epicureanism
Lecture 2. The Questioned Book: Critical Scholarship and the Gospels

PART TWO: History, Eschatology and Apocalyptic
Lecture 3. The Shifting Sand: The Meanings of ‘History’
Lecture 4. The End of the World?: Eschatology and Apocalyptic in Historical Perspective

PART THREE: Jesus and Easter in the Jewish World
Lecture 5. The Stone the Builders Rejected: Jesus, the Temple and the Kingdom
Lecture 6. The New Creation: Resurrection and Epistemology

PART FOUR: The Peril and Promise of Natural Theology
Lecture 7. Broken Signposts?: New Answers to the Right Questions
Lecture 8. The Waiting Chalice: Natural Theology and the Missio Dei

[simonskinner]

Great opener, Tom shining his light on so-called Christianity as churchianity, the only religion that holds the truth in a scripture available to all, has let itself be divided and complacent. Good old Tom.

[stephen_pfrimmer]

You left out William James and John Dewey.

[phinehas]

58:46 - What a very interesting take on love.

[naomiw]

I don't understand a clue of what he's saying. But I love NT Wright .

[muploads]

While I appreciate a lot of things from NT Wright, I don't agree with his critique of what he sees as "platonic" Christianity - he mentions around 47:50 theologians who ought not to speak of our souls longing to return home to heaven - however this idea of belonging to heaven and longing for that place very clearly comes from Scripture: 2 Cor 5:1-10, Phil 3:19-21, John 14:1-4, Heb 11:13-16

[dagwould]

Amusing that he slams the door on deistic 'evolutionism', but opens it again under the misapprehension that evolution is now science. Nup, just deistic evolutionism, without the deism. Unlike the Creation, which connects God and man, Evolution is jarringly different from the world: which is replete with the marks of intention, opposed to the meaningless randomness of bumping atoms, rolling down to our own intentionality. Evolution cannot be about this world, where love can be.

[thembamaselane]

Love listening to Professor NT Wright, but his take on American history is misleading which makes me wonder how can I trust his take on his other presentations

[SuperEROQ]

Straw man much? You're the King of Straw Christian doctrine something that its not and then criticize it....you of Strawdom

[ThembaMaselane]

I keep hearing repeating this Deists lie about most American Fathers from Bishop Wright and it disturbs me as I've taken time to research them through their writings, actions and the motivation behind it all. Some one should inform him that he is promoting a strawman narrative.