Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, delivered the lecture "Can a Scientist Believe the Resurrection?" on 15th May 2007 at Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. A transcript of the lecture can be viewed in html or downloaded as a pdf file.

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Introduction
Knowing Science, History and Other Things
The Surprising Character of Early Christian Hope
The Stories of Easter

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Brief Biography

Dr Tom Wright is one of today's best known and respected New Testament scholars. Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford.

From 1978 to 1981 he was Fellow and Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge, and then moved to Montreal as Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at McGill University. He returned in 1986 to Oxford as University Lecturer in New Testament, and Fellow and Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford. He became Dean of Lichfield in 1994, and Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey in 2000. He has been Bishop of Durham since 2003.

Tom has published over 40 books at both scholarly and popular levels; also several dozen academic and popular articles. He also frequently broadcasts on radio and TV, including devising and presenting programmes in both media.

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