N. T. Wright Quotes

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• Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
• Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom…
• The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
• Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God’s saving, sovereign kingdom...
• Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not…
• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
• Death is a monster; death is horrible.
• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die…
• To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
• Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
• Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion.…
• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps.…
• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and…
• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions…
• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around…

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