"What matters for our purposes in the present book is the ground of Paul's argument, since unlike him we are not presupposing Jesus' resurrection and building on it a theology of Christian hope, but examining his theology of Christian hope in order to understand more precisely what he thought had happened to Jesus."
N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (London: SPCK, 2003), p. 315. My italics.
An infelicitous phrase? A valid academic exercise ...
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I suppose it's a valid academic exercise, but there is something about it that just doesn't sit right coming from a bishop...
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