Brian J. Wright
Brian J. Wright is the author of numerous academic studies, including ones published in the Journal of Theological Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Trinity Journal, and Tyndale Bulletin. His academic and pastoral work have also been featured on several Christian media networks, such as Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Power for Living. Brian is founding pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Pensacola, FL, and also teaches part-time at various universities and seminaries.
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This year-long devotional takes 365 questions asked in the New Testament, and shows you how to change your focus, reorder your affections, and reprioritize your loves. It will inspire you to action, not just sweet reflections. It will compel you to love God and others more fervently and selflessly, while weaning your heart off the lies and lures of this world.
Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament will be a valuable resource for those working in textual criticism, early Christianity, New Testament apocrypha, and patristics."
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authenticity. In order to do so, one syntactical construction is examined in five central Greek corpora, as well as several other critical Greek and Coptic texts. From that examination it is argued that Greek syntax is a viable criterion of authenticity in historical Jesus studies, and that this one syntactical construction might provide verifiable evidence to a Greek stratum of ipsissima verba of Jesus, up to nine sayings (four in the NT; four in the AF; one in the Gos. Thom.).
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This year-long devotional takes 365 questions asked in the New Testament, and shows you how to change your focus, reorder your affections, and reprioritize your loves. It will inspire you to action, not just sweet reflections. It will compel you to love God and others more fervently and selflessly, while weaning your heart off the lies and lures of this world.
Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament will be a valuable resource for those working in textual criticism, early Christianity, New Testament apocrypha, and patristics."
authenticity. In order to do so, one syntactical construction is examined in five central Greek corpora, as well as several other critical Greek and Coptic texts. From that examination it is argued that Greek syntax is a viable criterion of authenticity in historical Jesus studies, and that this one syntactical construction might provide verifiable evidence to a Greek stratum of ipsissima verba of Jesus, up to nine sayings (four in the NT; four in the AF; one in the Gos. Thom.).
Such an understanding of John 1:1c flies in the face of what all major branches of the Christian tradition have testified about Jesus since the Nicene Creed: “true God from true God.” Therefore, if Jehovah’s Witnesses are correct concerning what this new evidence supports, it would radically alter how Christians understand Jesus’ divinity.
But are Jehovah’s Witnesses correct in how they understand this new evidence?
In the following article, Brian Wright and Tim Ricchuiti suggest they are not. Wright and Ricchuiti demonstrate that the best interpretation of this new evidence indicates that the subject of John 1.1c (“the Word”) possesses all the qualities of God (capital-G). Not only is such an understanding well-supported by existing scholarly work, it also applies best to other, similar passages in the New Testament, fits what we know the remainder of Scripture testifies to concerning Jesus, and accounts for the early Christian worship of Jesus.
Tal interpretación de Juan 1:1c está en contradicción directa con lo que todas las mayores ramas de la tradición cristiana han testificado sobre Jesús desde el Credo Niceno: “Dios de Dios.” Por tanto, si los Testigos de Jehová están en lo correcto en cuanto a lo que apoya esta nueva evidencia, esto alteraría radicalmente cómo los cristianos entienden la divinidad de Jesús. Pero, ¿están acertados los Testigos de Jehová en cuanto a cómo entender esta evidencia?
No lo están. La mejor interpretación de esta nueva evidencia indica que el sujeto de Juan 1:1c (“la Palabra”, o, “el Verbo”- según la traducción) posee todas las cualidades de Dios (con D mayúscula). No sólo esta interpretación está muy bien apoyada por trabajos de especialistas, sino que también se aplica a otros pasajes similares en el Nuevo Testamento, concuerda con lo que sabemos que el resto de la escritura testifica concerniente a Jesús, y explica la adoración de Jesús por parte de los primeros cristianos.""