“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
“Jesus is now enthroned as the Lord of heaven and earth. His kingdom has been established. And this kingdom is to be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“9‘So this is how you should pray: Our father in heaven, May your name be honoured 10May your kingdom come May your… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The weakness of God is stronger than human strength. And it leads, as Jesus said it would lead, to a life of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“when heaven and earth are joined together in the new way God has promised, then he will appear to us—and we will… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Within the biblical worldview (which has not so much been disproved as ignored in much modern thought), heaven and earth overlap, and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“He is saying, as he says extensively in Romans 8, that the whole creation is longing for its exodus, and that when… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus himself is the new Temple at the heart of the new creation, against that day when the whole earth shall be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“My conclusion from this brief survey of the evidence is that Jesus believed himself called to act as the new Temple. When… — 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
