“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal… — 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
“The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Though my approach throughout the book will be positive and expository, it is worth noting from the outset that I intend to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In fact, don’t believe most of what you read about the Rapture. Many Christians, particularly in North America, have been taught for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in their possession a book which will do a thousand… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
