“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“(a) God intended Jesus to die as the climax of his rescue operation; (b) the intentions and actions that sent Jesus to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“All this, I suggest, is Luke’s way of saying that with the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Israel’s Messiah and with the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The great creeds, when they refer to Jesus, pass directly from his virgin birth to his suffering and death. The four gospels… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What we say about death and resurrection gives shape and color to everything else. If we are not careful, we will offer… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“God’s intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I am not going to attempt a physical or medical analysis of death and its aftermath or a psychological or anthropological description… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told… — 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
“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 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
“The problem is that humans were made for a particular vocation, which they have rejected; that this rejection involves a turning away… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set… — 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
