Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2001

Overview

N.T. Wright offers reflections on the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. This book brings together his widely read columns in the Church Times, and also contains new pieces, to cover all the Sundays and major festivals. Scholarship, history, and insights into the world and language of the Bible are woven together to give a deeper understanding of the Word of the Lord.

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Product Details

• Title: Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A
• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 138
• Christian Group: Anglican
• Resource Type: Lectionaries

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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Contents

Top Highlights

“The point about Noah’s days is that they were ordinary.” (Page 2)

“Paul swaps the prophet’s animals for humans: instead of wolves and lambs, Jews and Gentiles are brought together in harmony. All is based on the work of the Messiah, who has fulfilled the promises to Israel (v. 8) precisely in order that the whole world might now glorify God for his mercy.” (Page 5)

“When he appears, we shall be like him; we shall see him as he is.” (Page 37)

“What then of Jesus, and his night encounter with the puzzled teacher? ‘New birth’, in Jewish ears, meant a new family: leaving the old, cleaving to something new. Abraham’s family redefined, out-nomading the old nomad. Water and Spirit, baptism and faith. Israel took its shape from Exodus and Sinai, sea and fire, its healing from the strange bronze serpent. Now, a new covenant: the love of God, not Israel’s private boast, but for the world. All is revealed in one who left his father’s home and went where he was told. ‘So must the Son of Man be lifted up.’ God is now newly working: everyone, all who believe, will share the glory of the age to come.” (Page 43)

“The Trinity is, paradoxically, a doctrine about Jesus: it safeguards the reality of his humanness, then and now, as the true and final revelation of the one true God. It simultaneously unites him with, and distinguishes him from, the unseen source of all, on the one hand, and the breath of life that sustains us now, on the other. And the point of it all is mission: the God revealed in Jesus is the missionary God, sending his healing love into the world in Jesus, and now, under Jesus’ authority, sending Jesus’ followers out with that same healing love, of which baptism is the sign and seal.” (Pages 72–73)

Product Details

• Title: Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Series: Twelve Months of Sundays
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Sermons; Lectionary › Reflections
• Resource ID: LLS:12MOSUNA
• Resource Type: text.monograph.devotional
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-07T22:14:23Z

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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