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but he at least takes the challenge seriously. He rightly sees that the Gospel is political and not individualistic (in other words, he attacks the Enlightenment).
| But he only does it when it's safe. I'm making an assumption, but I think some of his pay comes from money the UK government controls (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) and while he loves to dump on whatever an Empire is he is impassioned about how wonderful a Monarchy is, calling it the best form of government.
He stands as a brave contrarian when it comes to gay ordination, but when it comes to women Bishops he co-authored the official response to Father Kaspar's (RC) speech to the House of Bishops criticizing the COE practice of ordaining women, and his response was that women Bishops are a really neat thing.
He spends paragraphs on two letter Greek words but uses his influence to press for a "Jubilee" year to cancel third world debt, even though the jubilee doesn't have anything to do with canceling debt.
I'm all for subverting unlawful authority (as well as having personal issues which go beyond unlawful authority) but Wright is more an armchair Che Guevara than an Oliver Cromwell. |
In other words, he has some problems within his worldview. I agree. Who doesn't? No one here, not even Wright, is advocating an "all-or-nothing" approach.
I cringe at some of his formulations, true. But at least he is recognizing the reason for which he acts, be they faulty applications: the cosmic claims of King Jesus.