“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about… — 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
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In part, this will happen simply because people who pray the Psalms will be worshiping the God who made them, and one… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Whether we believe in Jesus, whether we approve of his teaching, let alone whether we like the look of the movement 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
“The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.” — 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
“[Jesus] is, at the moment, present with us, but hidden behind that invisible veil which keeps heaven and earth apart, and which… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“God’s intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To hope for a better future in this world—for the poor, the sick, the lonely and depressed, for the slaves, the refugees,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We… — 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
“[The gospels] are not merely antiquarian documents telling a strange story about a powerful but now long-gone moment of history. They are… — 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
