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The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
N. T. Wright
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N. T. Wright
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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Northumberland
Nicholas Thomas Wright
Tom Wright
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
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The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
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Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
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It's not great faith you need it is faith in a great God.
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When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order
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Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
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The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.
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One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
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