The Kingdom of God with the Rt Revd Dr Tom Wright

Tom Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, and was until recently the Bishop of Durham. One of the foremost Biblical scholars of our time, he is the author of over fifty books all published by SPCK.

Moderated by the Revd Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral.

[rheailiarome]

Thank you Dr Wright for this wonderful talk which make clear something I always accepted that the purpose of Jesus teachings in the Gospels is to create Heaven on Earth not to wait for it 🙏 God bless you 🙏

[hermanhashe]

The depth and richness with which you explain the gospel is mind blowing and enriching. Indeed hard work and dedication bears fruit that can be enjoyed by the whole world at large. Thank you Dr NT Wright. May God continue to bless you and your family.

[Skrazy]

A friend in church recommended NT Wright and it’s totally inspired me.

[maggiem.]

thank you so much for posting this. this answers my many questions about the kingdom.

[PeterGarofalo]

Rev Wright is right, it's the bible, nothing could be clearer, can't understand all the critical, negative comments, unless you have a problem with Jesus, God.

[maureenoconnor]

I now heard about Richard Hayes and O'Donavan so my listening continues thanks

[johnnilan]

Instruct believers to download and listen to the audio bible every day. However, ministers of the Church of England risk becoming irrelevant.

[joenbjerregaard]

It is time for Preterism and goodbye to Dispy

[davedanny]

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[joselitosingzon]

Only The late Dr.Munroe has the capacity to explain the message of the Kingdom.

[elijah-wanjacobi]

We all must come into the Unity of the Faith and swing the Two-Edged Sword of our Lord Jesus Christ in Unison.  See Population Growth Explosion around 1948 when Physical Israel became a nation.  Judgment begins at the House of God

[oluvincent]

I think we were unfair to Bishop Wright with the allocated time.
He brought to fore the main mission of Christ on earth as recorded in the Gospels. This could be linked to John 3:16 and the global plan of God for mankind. This new Humanity is what is lacking. His concept of theocracy could be misunderstood. I guessed if he had more time there could have been more elucidation on it. That is the voncept of the Shite Moslem now. We will be glad to have him revisit this in the future.

[netelsg]

Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36. Kingdom of God is NOT an earthly Kingdom. The Kingdom is within everyone of us. Luke 17:21-22. Seek first (Matthew 6:33) the Kingdom of God within you.

[PRtawan]

Tons of sophistry and prolix. I wonder if this style of academia does any good in terms of bringing people to The Lord, Jesus Christ.

[jamesbertram]

Pilate asked the Lord Jesus, are you the King of the Jesus, worried Maccabean rebellion, He replied, did you come to this conclusion yourself or did others tell you, Pilate said, you own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me, The Lord Jesus stated, My Kingdom is not of this World, if My Kingdom were of this world them would servants fight, that I would not be delivered to Jews, but now My kingdom is not for now

[Mark_Dyer]

This wonderful lecture is only marred when Bishop Wright claims that the "concept of THEOCRACY sends shivers down our modern western democratic spines", this is not entirely correct. It is ONLY the concept of Judeo/Christian theocracy which has this effect. Most of the British people today (modern, western, democratic) appear quite content with the prospect of an Islamic theocracy. Of course, the 'Kingship of God', as envisaged by Jesus and Bishop Wright is of an entirely different from from that intended, and hoped for, by Moslems. But this is just ONE of the problems with the Church no longer preaching and teaching the 'full-on'Jesus'!

[patrickholt]

Epicureanism is essential to bourgeois power, and is part of bourgeois ideology, aka Liberalism (including Neoliberal/Neoclassical economics). It is essential to dehumanise, de-spiritualise and demoralise the political and worklife worlds so as to enable the absolute power of the rich over the rest of society, business owners over employees and the financial greed of corporations, rentiers and so on over political decision-making and the state, to be able to get away with pretending that the combined private interests of private businesses constitute the common good, and to be able to get away with the idolatry of private property, markets and market forces, the profit-motive as innovation and dynamism rather than greed and so on. That is why Epicureanism has taken over and been normalised into apparent common sense-icality, including the arbitrary and false division of life into seperate compartments of "religion" and "secular" which Evangelicalism assumes in its false eschatology and cosmology: because it serves the interests of the rich as the ruling class. That idolatrous cosmology and worship, in the process of capital accumulation, in public, cultural and political life cannot be erased just by preaching, because those ideas serve private interests. People find it extraodinarily difficult to accept ideas their income depends on not accepting. Those structures of power and wealth have to be overthrown before people will be able to reject Epicureanism, which is just too convenient to the lives of the wealthy and powerful.

[rosewhite---]

I just cannot bear to listen to Wright's silly prattlings!
To say he spent years as minister and bishop is the biggest joke ever.

[RickKaiserrsk]

This guy has got it wrong! What is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven! Not the other way around. Also the Kingdom(s) of God are all smaller than a mustard seed. Perhaps an Atom? Also, Does not LIfe beget Life? Scientifically trudging, Is there not Our Cosmos and the Microcosmos and finally the Sub-Microcosmos? Who'd guess?

[RickKaiserrsk]

Theocratic Nonsense Senior Wright! Your words proclaim theocratic Nuff Said