“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Once we get the goal right (the new creation, not just “heaven”) and the human problem properly diagnosed (idolatry and the corruption… — 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
“But if Jesus is raised from the dead, then the scriptures have reached their goal in him, and it’s now time for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“resurrection doesn’t mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus’s lordship over the world. Already” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In other words, precisely because the ultimate goal is ... the redemption of the whole creation, our calling is to live in… — 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
“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
“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
“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
