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Christianity Quotes by N.T. Wright

54 Christianity quotes by N.T. Wright

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The four canonical gospels are highlighted as the core story that links Jesus to Israel and humanity’s brokenness. The cross is said to have changed the world, showing God becoming king and urging justice for the poor, sick, and lonely. Art is described as love creating new worlds, and justice as love that heals old ones.

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“When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong." (on atonement theories)”

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“Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.”

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“Jesus as a “teacher” is much safer than Jesus as the gospels actually present him.”

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“The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is…

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“There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually…

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“In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in their possession a book which will do a thousand…

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“Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist…

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“All of this suggests that Mark’s gospel, with Jesus himself as the great Character who stands behind it, is inviting us to…

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“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after…

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“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that…

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“The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed…

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“For Christians it's always a love game ... that He is love itself ... Indeed, some have suggested that one way of…

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“We use the gospels. We read them aloud in worship. We often preach from them. But have we even begun to hear…

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“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…

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“Jesus is now enthroned as the Lord of heaven and earth. His kingdom has been established. And this kingdom is to be…

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“To hope for a better future in this world—for the poor, the sick, the lonely and depressed, for the slaves, the refugees,…

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“Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the…

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“In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus’s sayings in the other gospels about the “kingdom of God” are rendered as “kingdom of heaven”; since many…

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“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as…

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“First, Paul is anxious that everyone who professes Christian faith should allow the gospel to transform the whole of their lives, so…

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“[Christians] must become, must be known as, the people who don't hold grudges, who don't sulk. We must be the people who…

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“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as…

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“In fact, don’t believe most of what you read about the Rapture. Many Christians, particularly in North America, have been taught for…

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“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was…

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“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever…

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“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…

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“If you are to shape your world in following Christ, you are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human…

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“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…

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“Though my approach throughout the book will be positive and expository, it is worth noting from the outset that I intend to…

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“At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul does not want the Galatians…

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“It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a…

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“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that…

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“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of…

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“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if…

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“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result…

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“It has forgotten that the gospels are replete with atonement theology, through and through—only they give it to us not as a…

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“only when we see Jesus’s death in its proper connection to this entire narrative, can we begin to resolve the questions we…

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“In most popular Christianity, “heaven” (and “fellowship with God” in the present) is the goal, and “sin” (bad behavior, deserving punishment) is…

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“As with the ascension, so with Jesus’s appearing: it was seen as a vital part of a full presentation of the Jesus…

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“It is startling to reflect on just how diminished the average modern Western Christian vision of “hope,” of “inheritance,” or indeed of…

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“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)…

“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…

“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation…

“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.”…

“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…

“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…

“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,…