“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In particular, they seem to have interpreted Jesus’s crucifixion within a much bigger—and perhaps more dangerous—story than simply the question of whether… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But over against this downplaying or mocking we also see, from the earliest documents of the New Testament right on through the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament it is clear: because of Christ and the Spirit, every single Christian is welcome at any time to… — 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
“Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who… — 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… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[Christians] must become, must be known as, the people who don't hold grudges, who don't sulk. We must be the people who… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“After you die, you go to be "with Christ," but your body remains dead. Describing where and what you are in that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Salvation, then, is not “going to heaven” but “being raised to life in God’s new heaven and new earth.” But as soon… — 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
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