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 by. N. T. Wright More Quotes by N. T. Wright More Quotes From N. T. Wright What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus. N. T. Wright today people jesus There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second. N. T. Wright differences community christian Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church. N. T. Wright church kingdoms spirit All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist. N. T. Wright mist language christian Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom. N. T. Wright roman-soldiers jesus thinking The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death. N. T. Wright life-after-death biblical vision Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'. N. T. Wright democracy christian believe The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself. N. T. Wright results persons happens If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it. N. T. Wright england doe people God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it." N. T. Wright creator-god creation want Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize. N. T. Wright christian writing mean We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any. N. T. Wright use christian doubt It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out. N. T. Wright age together stuff Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair. N. T. Wright leader people thinking I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing. N. T. Wright hearing knowing doe Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide. N. T. Wright church vices teacher For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!" N. T. Wright bishops challenges giving I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God. N. T. Wright mets catholic grace My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another. N. T. Wright aim scripture way Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work. N. T. Wright real school thinking
