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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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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
Anglican Priest
Bishop Of Durham
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Nicholas Thomas Wright
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I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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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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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 cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
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The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
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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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Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
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To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.
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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.
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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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The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.
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To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
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The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
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Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
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All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
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Worship will never end whether there be buildings, they will crumble whether there be committees, they will fall asleep whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away.
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