“It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview.… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“First, Paul is anxious that everyone who professes Christian faith should allow the gospel to transform the whole of their lives, so… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You are called to be truly human, but it is nothing short of the life of God within you that enables you… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus himself is the new Temple at the heart of the new creation, against that day when the whole earth shall be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Paul is talking about the present body, which is animated by the normal human psychē (the life force we all possess here… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“As with Isaiah’s vision in the Temple, and many other scenes both biblical and modern, Peter’s change from fisherman to shepherd comes… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living. They shaped the praying and vocation even of Jesus himself. They… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Salvation, then, is not “going to heaven” but “being raised to life in God’s new heaven and new earth.” But as soon… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The weakness of God is stronger than human strength. And it leads, as Jesus said it would lead, to a life of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring… — 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
![“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.” quote by N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c3d/n-t-wright-1173_church_re-i-corinthians-15-34-58-the-present-li_2315826.jpg)
