“Belief in the bodily resurrection includes the belief that what is done in the present in the body, by the power of… — 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
“This does not, therefore, mean `the gospel reveals justification by faith as the true scheme of salvation, as opposed to Jewish self-help… — 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
“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
“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
“I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — 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
“Skepticism is no more “neutral” or “objective” than faith. It has thrived in the post-Enlightenment world, which didn’t want God (or, in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Rules of faith and creeds are like the guard rails on the side of the highway, which prevent you from skidding off… — 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
“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
