John Stafford Wright (15 February 1905 in
Bakewell
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– 27 August 1985 in
Bristol
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) was an Anglican theologian.
J. Stafford Wright graduated from classics from
Sidney Sussex College
Sidney Sussex College (historically known as "Sussex College" and today referred to informally as "Sidney") is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1 ...
, Cambridge in 1927 and was one of the first students at
Tyndale Hall
Trinity College, Bristol is an evangelical Anglican theological college located in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, England. It offers a range of full-time and part-time taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are validated by the University ...
, and in 1930 vice-principal. From 1945-1950 he was a senior tutor at Oak Hill College, London, then from 1951-1969 principal of Tyndale Hall. Among his staff were
Philip Edgecumbe Hughes
Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (1915–1990) was an Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar whose life spanned four continents: Australia, where he was born; South Africa, where he spent his formative years; England, where he was ordained; and the ...
, and
John Wenham
John William Wenham (1913 – 13 February 1996) was a conservative Anglican biblical scholar, who devoted his professional life to academic and pastoral work. Two of his four sons, Gordon Wenham and David Wenham, are also noted theologians.
Wenh ...
. In 1967 he was made an honorary canon of Bristol Cathedral.
Works
* ''The Date of Ezra's Coming to Jerusalem'' (Tyndale Old Testament Lecture, 1946)
* ''What is Man? a Christian assessment of the powers and functions of human personality''. London: Paternoster Press, 1955
* ''Christianity and the Occult''. London: Scripture Union, 1971
* ''Some Modern Religions''. London: Tyndale Press, 1956 (with John Oswald Sanders)
* ''The Child's Right to Baptism''. 1929; revised ed. London: Church Book Room Press, 1951
* ''The Authority of the Bible''. London: Tyndale Press, 1946.
* "The Interpretation of Ecclesiastes" in ''Classical Evangelical Essays'', ed. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972), pp. 133–50
* ''Some Modern Faiths''. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 1973 "An expanded and revised version of the booklet Some modern religions." (with Maurice C. Burrell)
* "Ecclesiastes" in Expositor's Bible Commentary, vol. 5, gen. ed. Frank E. Gaebelein. Zondervan, 1991.
* "Psalms" in The Bible Study Commentary
References
1905 births
1985 deaths
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