“Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong." (on atonement theories)” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus as a “teacher” is much safer than Jesus as the gospels actually present him.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“For Christians it's always a love game ... that He is love itself ... Indeed, some have suggested that one way of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“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
“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually… — 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
“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
“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
“In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus’s sayings in the other gospels about the “kingdom of God” are rendered as “kingdom of heaven”; since many… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is startling to reflect on just how diminished the average modern Western Christian vision of “hope,” of “inheritance,” or indeed of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“we can all enjoy a well-prepared meal, but unless somebody in the house knows how to cook and something about balanced diets,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In most popular Christianity, “heaven” (and “fellowship with God” in the present) is the goal, and “sin” (bad behavior, deserving punishment) is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“As with the ascension, so with Jesus’s appearing: it was seen as a vital part of a full presentation of the Jesus… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus is now enthroned as the Lord of heaven and earth. His kingdom has been established. And this kingdom is to be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[Christians] must become, must be known as, the people who don't hold grudges, who don't sulk. We must be the people who… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“In the many places where the phrase zoe aionios appears in the gospels, and in Paul’s letters for that matter, it refers… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you are to shape your world in following Christ, you are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul does not want the Galatians… — 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
“All of this suggests that Mark’s gospel, with Jesus himself as the great Character who stands behind it, is inviting us to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist… — 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
“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
“It has forgotten that the gospels are replete with atonement theology, through and through—only they give it to us not as a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We use the gospels. We read them aloud in worship. We often preach from them. But have we even begun to hear… — 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 the world that… — 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
“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
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