Nicholas Thomas Wright is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has been one of the leading Christian scholars and voices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was the Bishop of Durham in the UK and has been a professor of New Testament and early Christian history at such institutions as the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the University of Oxford in England. He is the author of dozens of books on the Bible, theology, Christian history, and popular apologetics, and he is one of the world’s most respected scholars working in the field of religion, theology, and Christian doctrine. N. T. Wright’s scholarship and teaching experience make him a natural author of a text seeking to explain the basic logic of Christianity: He can offer the work at a level that is both academically rigorous and popularly effective.