Religion Quote by N.T. Wright

“Conservatives have said that Jesus was bodily raised, while liberals have denied it, but neither group has seen the bodily resurrection as the launching…

— N.T. Wright

“The resurrection of Jesus is not to be understood in good liberal fashion as a spiritual development in the church. Nor should it be…

— Walter Brueggemann

“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God continues to…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The early church didn't experience explosive growth in the face of relentless persecution for believing the resurrection was a metaphor.”

— David D. Flowers

“We are called to go beyond our imaginations, to be led by God’s Spirit into church practices that are as welcoming of outcasts as…

— Preston Sprinkle

“And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and leads to…

— Michael S. Horton

“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead …’” Pastor Merrill assured us. “‘For as by a man came death, by a…

— John Irving

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Jesus’s rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the first century…

— Eric Metaxas

“The Jesus Factor it’s called, instant resurrection and a second cumming.”

— Gillibran Brown

The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the…

— Allan Boesak

“What the ultra-conservative (or the merely timid and compliant) fail to realize is that a Christianity which wields its moral and dogmatic authority like…

— Angela Tilby