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July 19, 2022
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Nicholas Thomas Wright, known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He served as research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2019, when he became a senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford.

Over the years the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has hosted Tom Wright for learning events, including several times at the Calvin Symposium on Worship, held at Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary. Below is a list of resources authored by N.T. Wright and organized chronologically with titles. 

2022 
A Conversation with N.T. Wright on Christian Public Worship, hosted by John D. Witvliet
 

2017 
Public Worship as Sign and Means of New Creation 

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