Quotes by N.T. Wright
N.T. Wright (b. 1948) — Neutestamentler, Theologe und ehemaliger Bischof von Durham · Anglikanisch · Vereinigtes Königreich
Nicholas Thomas Wright ist ein britischer Neutestamentler, anglikanischer Theologe und ehemaliger Bischof von Durham. Bekannt wurde er durch historische Arbeiten über Jesus und Paulus sowie seine Beteiligung an der „Neuen Paulusperspektive“, deren Verständnis der Rechtfertigung im konservativ-reformierten Spektrum anhaltende Kritik hervorrief. Bibellesern erschließt sein Werk die jüdischen Kontexte des Neuen Testaments und stellt die leibliche Auferstehung sowie die Erneuerung der Schöpfung in das Zentrum christlicher Hoffnung.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Hope & Confidence, Discipleship, The Bible & the Word of God, Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, Witness & Mission
Quotes by N.T. Wright
In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord’s Prayer.
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It isn't a matter of doing things to earn God's favor. It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away. It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God's new world.
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The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade.
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Our task in the present is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.
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The minute you think you're good enough for God, God says, 'I'm not interested in people who are good enough for me.' And the minute you think you're too bad for God, God says, 'It's you I've come for.
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This is why too for every theologian who puzzles over abstract definitions of “atonement,” there are thousands who will say, with Paul, “The son of God loved me and gave himself for me”—and who will then get on with the job of radiating that same love out into the world.
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Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
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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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The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It's a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus's kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task.
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We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.
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God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
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All the beauty, all the goodness, all the pulsating life of the present creation, is to be enhanced, lifted to a new level, in the world that is to be.
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.
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When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted and so on.
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Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity; as Paul says, you are still in your sins.
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The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God’s kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.
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Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.
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Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.
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Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.
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The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.
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The only reason the death of Jesus was ever thought of as good news was because of what happened next.
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To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
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Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we don’t take evil seriously after all; it means that we do.
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The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
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To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the 'performance' (whether of Byrd or heavy rock), would be like Moses coming upon the burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it.
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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.
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Creation is good, but it is not God. It is beautiful, but its beauty is at present transient. It is in pain, but that pain is taken into the very heart of God and becomes part of the pain of new birth.
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When God does the big things, the little people get drawn in too. Human systems often forget that, but God doesn’t.
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Those who belong to Jesus are called, here and now, in the power of the Spirit, to be agents of that putting-to-rights purpose.
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In God’s kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.
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This meant, inevitably, that the victory would have to be implemented in the same way, proceeding by the slow road of love rather than the quick road of sudden conquest. That is part of what the Sermon on the Mount was all about.
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The line between good and evil runs, not between ‘us’ and ‘them’, but down the middle of each of us.
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Take away the stories of Jesus’s birth, and all you lose is four chapters of the Gospels. Take away the resurrection and you lose the entire New Testament, and most of the second-century fathers as well.
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The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together and individually. They are God’s gifts to us so that we can be shaped as his gift to the world.
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The answer to evil is not revenge but redemption.
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God made humans to reflect his glory, his love, his wisdom into the world, and in the new creation God will not revoke this vocation. He will gloriously fulfill it. We will become more human, not less.
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Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship.
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God’s kingdom is coming in and through the work of Jesus, not by taking people away from this world but by transforming things within this world, bringing the sphere of earth into the presence, and under the rule, of heaven itself.
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That is our vocation: to be in prayer, perhaps wordless prayer, at the point where the world is in pain.
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Sources: firstthings.com, jonathanmerritt.com, krisispraxis.com, wineskins.org
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