神学家 N.T. Wright 在达拉斯讲《罗马书》：「全以色列得救」指的是犹太与外邦信徒组成的教会
据《基督邮报》11月6日报道，77岁的英国神学家 N.T. Wright 本周在位于美国德克萨斯州达拉斯县达拉斯市的 Park Cities Baptist Church 举行的「The Fresh Challenge of Romans」四日会议（11月1日至4日）上讲解《罗马书》，对新约中最受争议的经文之一——《罗马书》第11章26节「全以色列都要得救」——给出了他的解读。
Wright 认为，这句应许指的不是单一族群的以色列人，而是指由犹太人与外邦人信徒共同组成的整个教会。他说：「在《罗马书》第9至11章的任何一处，都看不到保罗预想一场大规模的、最后一刻的全族裔犹太人得救事件，也看不到他设想上帝把大批犹太人聚集回中东、让某种大事把他们一举带进恩典。」他把这类教导称为「现代的幻想」。
在译本细节上，他指出这一节开头的词语应按更新版 NRSV 译作「以这种方式」（in this way），而不是「于是」或「然后」——「要点是，上帝正是以这种方式拯救全以色列」。
同时，Wright 反复强调不可把基督信仰与它的以色列根源割断。他警告一种倾向：宣称「旧约的上帝与新约的上帝无关」、信仰可以切断与以色列民族及其经卷的联系；他强调「以色列的上帝是全世界独一的上帝」。他说，犹太人若归向弥赛亚，那将不只是无中生有，而会像「从死里复活」，是「真正的回归流亡」。
会议最后，Wright 引《罗马书》第11章提醒信徒不可自高：身为弥赛亚子民的身份，单单基于独一上帝的恩典与慈爱；任何人若退回以族裔或社会地位自夸，就是「砍断自己所站的那根枝子」。N.T. Wright 是前任 Durham 主教、圣安德鲁斯大学与牛津大学学者，是当代最具影响力的新约学者之一。（来源：基督邮报）
Theologian N.T. Wright in Dallas on Romans: 'All Israel Will Be Saved' Refers to the Church of Jewish and Gentile Believers
The Christian Post reported on Nov. 6 that British theologian N.T. Wright, 77, expounded the Book of Romans this week at "The Fresh Challenge of Romans," a four-day conference held Nov. 1-4 at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, offering his reading of one of the New Testament's most debated verses — Romans 11:26, "all Israel will be saved."
Wright argued that the promise refers not to ethnic Israel alone, but to the whole Church made up of Jewish and Gentile believers together. "There is no sign at any point in Romans 9 to 11 that Paul envisages a large-scale, last-minute salvation of all ethnic Judeans," he said. "Nor is there a sign that Paul imagines God gathering great numbers of Judeans back into the Middle East, so that some great event may happen that would sweep them all into favor." He called such teaching "just a modern-day fantasy."
On translation, he pointed to the updated New Revised Standard Version's rendering of the verse's opening as "in this way," rather than "and so" or "and then": "The point is, this is how God is saving all Israel."
At the same time, Wright repeatedly rejected any attempt to sever Christianity from its Jewish roots, warning against a tendency to claim that "the God of the Old Testament had nothing to do with the God of the New" and that the faith could cut its ties to the people of Israel and their scriptures. "The God of Israel is the one God over the world," he insisted. If Judeans were to return to the Messiah, he said, it would be "not just a creation out of nothing, but like life from the dead" — "the real return from exile."
He closed with Paul's warning in Romans 11 against arrogance: the status of the Messiah's people rests simply on the grace and kindness of the one God, and anyone who falls back on ethnic or social status is "cutting off the very branch on which they claim to be sitting." A former Bishop of Durham and a scholar at the University of St Andrews and Oxford, Wright is among the most influential New Testament scholars of his generation. (Source: The Christian Post)
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