N.T. Wright on Slippery Slopes

Published on September 1, 2010 in David Opderbeck. 1 Comment

This brief snip of a video interview with Biblical scholar and theologian N.T. Wright is geared towards evangelical Christians, but I thought it was worth sharing here. Wright is not addressing American Catholics, or other American religious people, in this clip. But it’s interesting (and frustrating) to me that evangelicals in the U.S. tend toward “right-leaning” political positions borrowed from Catholic Social Teaching but at the same time usually ignore CST when it comes to economics and the poor.

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Steve Smith
September 3, 2010 at 6:18 am

It is an interesting phenomenon that Wright describes– differences between the political leanings of religious conservatives in the US and UK. But I’m not sure it’s quite accurate to say that US evangelicals “borrow” right-leaning political views from Catholic Social Teaching. In fact, I’d be quite surprised if this were so. Seems more likely that there are some common elements or parallels arising from their own sources, traditions, and thinking.