Wright Doyle
Wright Doyle has been serving as a missionary among Chinese since 1975. He taught Greek and New Testament at China Evangelical Seminary (Taipei) in the 1980s. He is now Director of China Institute (www.reachingchineseworldwide.org) and of Global China Center (www.globalchinacenter.org); English editor and chief contributor of the online Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (www.bdcconline.net); and co-editor of the series Studies in Chinese Christianity, published by Wipf & Stock.
Wright and his wife Dori and his wife served with OMF International 1976 – 1988, in Taiwan, where he taught Greek and New Testament at China Evangelical Seminary. In 1989 they moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and in 2015 to Texas.
Educational background: BA with Honors in Latin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MDiv with Honors, Virginia Theological Seminary; PhD in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dissertation on St. Augustine.
He is author of Carl Henry: Theologian for All Seasons; Christianity in America: Triumph and Tragedy; China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society (with Dr Peter Xiaoming Yu); Wise Man from the East: Lit-sen Chang; Reaching Chinese Worldwide; Christ the King: Meditations on Matthew; Worship and Wisdom; The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: A Handbook to Marriage; Jesus: The Complete Man; The Lord’s Healing Words, as well as several works which have been translated into Chinese. He was editor and translation supervisor for the Greek-Chinese Lexicon of the New Testament, translated from Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, with reference to Bauer's Greek-German Lexicon.
In addition to “Social Conditions of Ministry in China Today,” in Bruce Baugus, ed., China’s Reforming Churches, and ‘China’ in Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom, edited by William D. Taylor and others, his articles and reviews have appeared in The Evangelical Review of Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Church History and Religious Culture, International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, Biblical Literature Studies (Shengjing Wenxue Yanjiu), Central Taiwan Theological Seminary Journal, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Books & Culture, Reformed Worship, and ChinaSource Journal.
He has taught short courses for several Chinese-language seminaries and has lectured and delivered papers at Oxford University, Yale University, Peking University ,People's University, East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Tunghai University, and the British Library.
Wright and his wife Dori and his wife served with OMF International 1976 – 1988, in Taiwan, where he taught Greek and New Testament at China Evangelical Seminary. In 1989 they moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and in 2015 to Texas.
Educational background: BA with Honors in Latin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MDiv with Honors, Virginia Theological Seminary; PhD in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dissertation on St. Augustine.
He is author of Carl Henry: Theologian for All Seasons; Christianity in America: Triumph and Tragedy; China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society (with Dr Peter Xiaoming Yu); Wise Man from the East: Lit-sen Chang; Reaching Chinese Worldwide; Christ the King: Meditations on Matthew; Worship and Wisdom; The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: A Handbook to Marriage; Jesus: The Complete Man; The Lord’s Healing Words, as well as several works which have been translated into Chinese. He was editor and translation supervisor for the Greek-Chinese Lexicon of the New Testament, translated from Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, with reference to Bauer's Greek-German Lexicon.
In addition to “Social Conditions of Ministry in China Today,” in Bruce Baugus, ed., China’s Reforming Churches, and ‘China’ in Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom, edited by William D. Taylor and others, his articles and reviews have appeared in The Evangelical Review of Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Church History and Religious Culture, International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, Biblical Literature Studies (Shengjing Wenxue Yanjiu), Central Taiwan Theological Seminary Journal, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Books & Culture, Reformed Worship, and ChinaSource Journal.
He has taught short courses for several Chinese-language seminaries and has lectured and delivered papers at Oxford University, Yale University, Peking University ,People's University, East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Tunghai University, and the British Library.
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Aware that this conviction stood in opposition to the prevailing theological winds, he devoted considerable energy to expounding and defending this central element of his theological program. He clarified what he meant and what he did not mean, and countered common objections from all points on the theological spectrum. At one time, this belief in propositional revelation would have been assumed by evangelical theologians, but things have changed drastically in the past few decades, and now Henry is widely criticized by leading evangelicals for just this position.
This paper clarifies what Henry meant by "propositional revelation," and responds to criticisms of Henry, in particular to an unpublished dissertation by Michael White, which is representative of the views of many of Henry's critics.
After briefly examining the many passages that could be used to support such a view, I go discuss the many more sayings and events in Matthew that demonstrate that he know about justifying "grace" and wrote his Gospel to declare that Jesus is truly the one who saves his people from their sins, and that "justifying" grace is a predominating theme.