Christopher J. H. Wright

Christopher John Hugh 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. He was the principal of All Nations Christian College. He is an honorary member of All Souls Church, Langham Place

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. 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.

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.

He is of no relation to N.T. Wright.

Written works User's Guide to the Bible (Lion Manuals), Chariot Victor, 1984 God's People in God's Land: Family, Land and Property in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Exeter, UK: Paternoster, 1990 Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament, Harpercollins, 1990 Tested by Fire. Daniel 1-6: Solid Faith in today’s world, Scripture Union, 1993 Walking in the Ways of the Lord: The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament, Intervarsity Press, 1995 Deuteronomy (New International Biblical Commentary), Hendrickson, 1996 The Uniqueness of Jesus. Thinking Clearly Series. Mill Hill, London and Grand Rapids: Monarch. Reprint 2001.Available in the United States through Kregel Publications, P.O. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI 49501), 1997 Ambassadors to the World (Declaring God’s Love) Intervarsity Press, 1998 The Message of Ezekiel (The Bible Speaks Today), Intervarsity Press, 2001 Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. Leicester, England, and Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity Press.Revised, updated and expanded version of Living as the People of God and An Eye for an Eye, 2004 The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, IVP Academic, 2006; second edition 2025 Life Through God's Word: Psalm 119, Milton Keynes, Authentic and Keswick Ministries, 2006 Knowing the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament, Oxford: Monarch Press; Downers Grove: IVP, 2006 Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, IVP Academic, 2007 Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Story, Global Christian Library, Nottingham: IVP;Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective, Downers Grove: IVP, 2008 The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009 The Mission of God's People (Biblical Theology for Life), Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010 Sweeter than Honey, Langham Preaching Resources, 2015 Becoming like Jesus, Langham Preaching Resources, 2016 How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth, Zondervan Academic, 2016 Let the Gospels Preach the Gospel, Langham Preaching Resources, 2017