The Way of the Lord: A Pilgrim Journey in Life and Faith

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 1999

Overview

Vividly evoking the sights, sounds, smells, and even the tastes of the Holy Land, Tom Wright takes us on a contemporary pilgrimage to help us respond to Jesus’ call today. An ideal introduction to the Christian faith, The Way of the Lord aims to lead us into a greater knowledge and love of Christ—whether our pilgrimage is physical, or one of heart and mind.

Capturing the real excitement of ‘Come and see the place’, it heightens our awareness that Jesus journeys with us as he calls us out into the wider world of discipleship. For, in the glorious message of Easter: ‘He is not here—he is risen!’

Product Details

• Title: The Way of the Lord: A Pilgrim Journey in Life and Faith
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 144

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Tom Wright, commonly known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Andrews University. Previously, he was the bishop of Durham. He has researched, taught, and lectured on the New Testament at McGill, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has been named by Christianity Today a top theologian. He is best known for his scholarly contributions to the historical study of Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul. His work interacts with the positions of James Dunn, E. P. Sanders, Marcus Borg, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wright has written and lectured extensively around the world, authoring more than forty books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and popular periodicals. He is best known for his Christian Origins and the Question of God Series, of which three of the anticipated six volumes are finished.

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“Third, pilgrimage to holy places, though neither necessary nor sufficient for Christian living, can be for many a time of real growth and depth in discipleship.” (Page 10)

“Second, pilgrimage to holy places is a stimulus and an invitation to prayer.” (Page 10)

“If the crucified and risen Jesus is the Lord of the whole world, the weapons by which his kingdom is established are those of the gospel: suffering and love.” (Page 8)

“The only answer I have to this day is that when God is known, sought and wrestled with in a place, a memory of that remains, which those who know and love God can pick up.” (Page 5)

“First, pilgrimage to holy places has a valuable role within the Church’s teaching ministry.” (Pages 9–10)

Product Details

• Title: The Way of the Lord: A Pilgrim Journey in Life and Faith
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 1999
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church of England › Sermons; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages › Palestine--Sermons; Sermons, English
• ISBNs: 9780281052028, 9780802846495, 0281052026, 0802846491
• Resource ID: LLS:WAYLORDWRIGHT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-07T21:51:38Z

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians. 

Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.

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