“When Jesus calls, he certainly does demand everything, but only because he has already given everything himself, and has plans in store,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“only when we see Jesus’s death in its proper connection to this entire narrative, can we begin to resolve the questions we… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“if it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilistic, denying the very possibility of creative or healing love.… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb; Having finished on the sixth day all his work of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christians are welcome to believe it and others… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The kingdom of God is, at its heart, about God’s sovereignty sweeping the world with love and power, so that human beings, each made… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of his resurrection,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
