“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
“Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“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
“when we turn to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John we discover that they at least think it’s important to retell the history… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you want to know why the “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“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
“Conservatives have said that Jesus was bodily raised, while liberals have denied it, but neither group has seen the bodily resurrection as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But here is the puzzle—the ultimate puzzle of Jesus. This puzzle boils down to two questions. First, why would anyone say this… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“An over-authoritarian church, paying no attention to experience, solves the problem by paving the garden with concrete. An over-experiential church solves the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The apostles are not offering people a new religious experience, though that will come as well. They are not telling them that… — 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
“The resurrection isn’t just a surprise happy ending for one person; it is instead the turning point for everything else. It 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… — 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
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you are to shape your world in following Christ, you are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“so many theological terms, words like ‘monotheism’ are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with… — 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 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
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus as a “teacher” is much safer than Jesus as the gospels actually present him.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“if it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point is that the resurrection, if it had occurred, would undermine not only the Enlightenment’s vision of a split world but… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“All of this suggests that Mark’s gospel, with Jesus himself as the great Character who stands behind it, is inviting us to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when… — 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
“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“how new that way is will now emerge. But for the moment we need to examine our own answers to the question.… — 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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