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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.

N. T. Wright

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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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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.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
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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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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.
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It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.
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Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.
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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.
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Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.
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Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.
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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
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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 them a meal.
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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.
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It's not great faith you need it is faith in a great God.
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Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
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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.
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The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
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