Quotes from Wright

"I want to suggest that scripture’s own view of authority focuses on the authority of God himself."

It seems clear that Wright, agrees that scripture  views itself as authoritative.   (In so far as an inanimate object can view itself)

"Beginning, though, with explicit scriptural evidence about authority itself, we find soon enough—this is obvious but is often ignored—that all authority does indeed belong to God.  ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth’.  God says this, God says that, and it is done.  Now if that is not authoritative, I don’t know what is.  God calls Abraham; he speaks authoritatively.  God exercises authority in great dynamic events (in Exodus, the Exile and Return).  In the New Testament, we discover that authority is ultimately invested in Christ: ‘all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth’.  Then, perhaps to our surprise, authority is invested in the apostles: Paul wrote whole letters in order to make this point crystal clear (in a manner of speaking).  This authority, we discover, has to do with the Holy Spirit.  And the whole church is then, and thereby, given authority to work within God’s world as his accredited agent(s).  From an exceedingly quick survey, we are forced to say: authority, according to the Bible itself, is vested in God himself, Father, Son and Spirit."

"And the notion of God’s authority, which we have to understand before we understand what we mean by the authority of scripture, is based on the fact that this God is the loving, wise, creator, redeemer God.  And his authority is his sovereign exercise of those powers; his love and wise creations and redemption.  What is he doing?  He is not simply organizing the world.  He is, as we see and know in Christ and by the Spirit, judging and remaking his world.  What he does authoritatively he dots with this intent."

"Rather, God’s authority vested in scripture is designed, as all God’s authority is designed, to liberate human beings, to judge and condemn evil and sin in the world in order to set people free to be fully human.  That’s what God is in the business of doing.  That is what his authority is there for. And when we use a shorthand phrase like ‘authority of scripture’ that is what we ought to be meaning."