Please take a few minutes to find A Resting Place and read this post.
Travis Prinzi is the blogger there.
Here's a teaser quote (this post refers to Wright and the perceived threat to Reformed thought):
"...doesn't it seem that Wright is not denying some of the most beloved truths of Reformed theology, but rather making us look at texts more closely to see which ones are communicating those truths and which ones are addressing other issues?"
And here is Alastair Roberts' contribution in full from the comment box:
"In most places in his writings, Wright seems to be trying to remind us of the questions that the Scripture is really trying to answer. The questions that we bring to the text (e.g. How can I go to heaven when I die? How can I find a gracious God?, etc.) are often simply the wrong questions to start with.
This does not mean that the text does not answer these questions in some manner or other, it is just that answering these questions is not that high on its to-do list. There are bigger fish to fry. I mean, how is God going to set the world to rights when the people that He has chosen to be the solution are themselves part of the problem?
There is room to hold to the best points of Reformed theology in the picture that Wright is giving us. However, we have to have the humility to admit that we have tended to overlook a lot of the big picture when it comes to the Apostle Paul, the man we read more, and quote in support of our positions more, than any other.
Perhaps the situation would be helped if people actually started to study the whole of Wright's theology on its own terms and did not just limit themselves to a couple of isolated paragraphs in WSPRS (not his best book at all, IMHO). People tend to abstract a few statements from the seamless garment of Wright's theology, place them within the categories of their theological systems (which run according to a logic that is alien to Wright's own) and conclude that Wright is a heretic."
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