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N. T. Wright

(1948) Anglican Theologian

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These 176 snippets let you into N. T. Wright’s scholarly approach to faith and history. The collection offers a compact view of his nuanced theological reflections.

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N. T. Wright is an Anglican theologian, best known for Meaning of Jesus.

Quick Facts About N. T. Wright

Born: December 1, 1948
Profession: Anglican Theologian
Notable works: Meaning of Jesus

About N. T. Wright

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 at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2019, when he became a senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by N. T. Wright

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

Faith

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Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

Comes

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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

Christian easter

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Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Death

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You become like what you worship

Humanness

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True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.

Inspirational

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God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

Funny

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Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

Art

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Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Creator

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I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand…

Christianity

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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

Always

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If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on…

Cross

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Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God’s saving, sovereign kingdom...

Easter

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The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

Giving

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I remember one particular moment (I don't actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that)…

Cry

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I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,…

Ads

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We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch…

British

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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent.…

Bears

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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought…

Afterlife

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For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation…

Academic

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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

Brokenness

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Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising…

Age

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True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its…

Dark

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God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an…

Death

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I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak…

Action

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Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the…

Different

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For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is…

Believe

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“There is no reason in principle why the question, what precisely happened at Easter, cannot be raised by any historian of any…

Buddhism

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Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that…

Brokenness

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The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to…

Argument

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Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there…

Attention

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“Most Western Christians—and most Western non-Christians, for that matter—in fact suppose that Christianity was committed to at least a soft version of…

Christianity

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Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean…

Becoming

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We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the…

Blood

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I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual…

Age

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“It is love that believes the resurrection.”16 “Simon, son of John,” says Jesus, “do you love me?” There is a whole world…

Love

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The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was…

Christianity

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God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place…

Boss

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When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave…

Death

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“Salvation, then, is not “going to heaven” but “being raised to life in God’s new heaven and new earth.”

Life

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N. T. Wright by topic

Jesus (42) World (37) Religion (36) People (23) Christian (23) Christianity (21) Love (19) Resurrection (17) Death (16) God (15) Kingdoms (14) Worship (13) Way (13) Mean (13) Ifs (13) Bible (13) Want (12) Prayer (12) Time (11) Justice (11) Humans (11) Creation (11) Church (11) Believe (11) Thinking (10)