The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God’s saving, sovereign kingdom... — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I remember one particular moment (I don't actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that)… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent.… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately". — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
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