Into the Heart of Romans
NT Wright
SPCK Publishing, £19.99, 224 pages
British scholar and Anglican clergyman NT Wright (who as Bishop of Durham was once one of the Church of England’s most senior prelates) is among the most influential theologians of the past century, and, since the death of JDG Dunn, the world’s preeminent interpreter of St Paul.
Wright’s ability to illuminate the long-shrouded promises of God to His image-bearing creatures in elegant and passionate prose has shaken the stale cage of Christian theology, which has for centuries been polluted by the Platonic supposition that matter, time and space are radically inferior to the disembodied spirit. So when his latest volume, Into the Heart of Romans, hit the shelves, the Christian world sat up to attention.
