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N.T. Wright

(1948) Theologian

278 quotes in 364 categories

N.T. Wright is a theologian.

Quick Facts About N.T. Wright

Born: December 1, 1948
Profession: Theologian

About N.T. Wright

[Wikidata] Anglican bishop... | [Wikipedia] Nicholas Thomas Wright, known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham and Lord Spiritual in the UK Parliament from 2003 to 2010. He then became research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity a

Quotes by N.T. Wright

“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation.…

Christianity

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“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for…

Capital punishment

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“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about…

Easter

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“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual…

Wisdom

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“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,…

Point of view

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“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis…

Goals

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“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and…

Enough time

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“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we…

Art and music

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“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant…

Bible

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“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time,…

Emotions

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“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it.…

Character

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“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when…

Kingdom of heaven

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“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around…

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“The kingdom of God is, at its heart, about God’s sovereignty sweeping the world with love and power, so that human beings,…

God

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“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of…

Death

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“what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a…

Habits

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“Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.”

Discipleship

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“Sanders argued, basically, that the normal Christian, and especially Protestant, readings of Paul were seriously flawed, because they attributed to first-century Judaism…

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“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment…

Beauty

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“expelled from the garden.”

Garden

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“When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to…

Pride

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“True, the doctrine of purgatory was not so popular outside Roman circles in the nineteenth century. But “penal substitution,” which had been…

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“Someone who truly understands who he or she is in Christ is further along the road to genuine holiness than someone who,…

New life

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“A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water…

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“Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been…

Death

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N.T. Wright by topic

Christianity (54) Time (29) Bible (20) Resurrection (17) Life (17) Books (17) N-t-wright (16) Eastertide (16) Death (16) Religion (15) New testament (14) Faith (13) Nature (12) Love (12) God (12)