Christopher J. H. Wright

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Christopher J. H. Wright (born 1947) is a missiologist, an Anglican clergyman and an Old Testament scholar. He is currently the International Ministries Director of Langham Partnership International. [1] He was the principal of All Nations Christian College. He is an honorary member of All Souls Church, Langham Place [2] in London, UK.

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Life

Childhood and education

Wright was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1947. His parents were missionaries in Brazil, though Chris as the youngest son was born after they came back at the end of the Second World War. He grew up in Belfast and was nurtured as an Irish Presbyterian. He studied classics at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge in the 1960s, and then started his career as a high-school teacher in Grosvenor High School, Belfast. In the 1970s he studied for his PhD at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, in the field of Theology, specialising in Old Testament economic ethics; his book from this work was published as God's People in God's Land (Eerdmans and Paternoster).

Early professional experience

Wright was ordained in the Anglican Church of England in 1977 and served as an assistant pastor in the Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Tonbridge, Kent, England. [3]

Foreign mission service

In 1983 Wright moved to India with his wife, Liz, and four children to teach at Union Biblical Seminary (UBS) in Pune for five years. At this time he and Liz were mission partners with Crosslinks, an evangelical Anglican mission agency. While at UBS he taught a variety of Old Testament courses at B.D. and M.Th. levels. [3]

All Nations Christian College

In 1988 Wright returned to the UK as academic dean at All Nations Christian College, an international training centre for crosscultural mission. He was appointed principal there in September 1993 and held that post for eight years. [3]

Current role

In September 2001 Wright was appointed to his present role as the International Ministries Director [1] of the Langham Partnership International (LPI).

Wright and his wife belong to All Souls Church, Langham Place, [2] where he enjoys preaching from time to time as a member of the ministry team. This is also the church where LPI's founder, John Stott, was rector emeritus. [4]

Personal life

Wright enjoys running, birding and watching rugby football. He has a passion to bring to life the relevance of the Old Testament to Christian mission and ethics. He has written several books mostly on that area. He loves preaching and teaching the Bible, which he does now mostly through the Langham Preaching seminars in different parts of the world. When not travelling around the world for this ministry, and giving international leadership to LPI, Chris gives about three months of each year to his continuing writing projects.

Wright and his wife Liz live in London and have four adult children and 11 grandchildren (Daisy, Dylan, Simeon, Joseph, Lawrence, Josh, Ellie, Isabel, Ethan, Samuel, Benjamin).

He is of no relation to N.T. Wright [5]

Writing

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  1. 1 2 "Leadership: Langham Partnership". Langham Partnership. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 "All Souls, Langham Place: Staff and Leadership". All Souls, Langham Place. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Profile: Christopher J.H. Wright" . Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "John Stott Biography: Local influence". Langham Partnership. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  5. ↑ C.J.H. Wright, Reading The Whole Bible For Mission: What Happens When We Do? , 7:10-7:30
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