It would be nice if he stopped spinning -because on so much he talks a lot of sense but is trying to duck the point that his review of PFOT simply didn’t square with the facts -e.g. yes it does engage with the Gospels -just in a different style to how he (very effectively does it).

My tip -read Pierced for Our Transgressions and Jesus and the Victory of God together as complimentary. PFOT covers ground not covered and in a way not covered by JVOT. That doesn’t make Wright’s books sub-Biblical.

Just a brief note regarding Tom Wright and Steve Chalke, specifically whether Mr Chalke rejects penal substitution outright or just a distortion of it.

At a formal debate organised by the UK’s Evangelical Alliance and at a subsequent symposium on the atonement held at the London School of Theology, Steve Chalke heard very clear and Biblical articulations of penal substitution and was himself equally clear that he was rejecting this doctrine in its entirety.

In other words, whilst it is charitable to give Mr Chalke the benefit of the doubt, his public statements subsequent to publishing the “Lost Message of Jesus” make it abundantly clear that he is NOT just rejecting a distortion of penal substitution. Sad to say, his is a very dangerous book that strikes at the heart of the atonement.

It is perhaps even sadder that a basically bad book receives undue charity and praise from Tom Wright, while he denounces a basically excellent book such as Pierced for our Transgressions as “sub-biblical” and “unbiblical.”