Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’ — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world. — 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
“people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last,… — 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
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
The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor… — 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
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. — 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
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
Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms… — 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
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
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
