Kennedy on NT Wright

Fr. Matt Kennedy is rector of Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, Binghamton. This response to NT Wright is posted on Stand Firm. ed.

+NT Wright wrong again, tries hand at revisionist sloganeering

Thursday, July 3, 2008 • 1:52 pm

+Durham mouths revisionist slogans

"And to be told that I now need to be authorised or validated by a group of primates somewhere else who come in and tell me which doctrines I should sign up to is not only ridiculous it's deeply offensive.

"The idea that they have a monopoly on Biblical truth simply won't do and we must stand up to this, it's a kind of bullying. 'We're the true gospel people, therefore you must listen to us'."

He said most traditionalist bishops in England did not support Gafcon and were "deeply worried about it".

"When one finds people coming high-handedly, who don't actually know what's going on, and say, 'We've now drawn up this list of 14 points and you've got to sign up to them and then we'll authorise you and you can be part of our club, and if you don't then we're going to sweep you aside'... anyone has a right to feel angry when faced with that kind of thing."

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For a brilliant scholar, Bishop Wright certainly seems to have a problem with reading/comprehension or perhaps he's simply employing a bit of sophistry?

Did anyone at GAFCON suggest that they possess a "monopoly on Biblical truth"? Or did the assembled simply profess their adherence to truths that have been revealed and have always been believed?

Does Bishop Wright really think that he's being "bullied"? What thin skin for a bishop. Does he usually whine like this when challenged?

Bishop Wright used to be a hero of mine. I will always be grateful for his masterful work on the historical Jesus. But his responses and general attitude toward evangelicals more conservative than himself has been both irrational and graceless.