Quotes about N.T. Wright

When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong." (on atonement theories)

The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

The Psalms do not, that is, offer us an answer for "the problem of evil." But they are clear where the answer is not to be found. It is not to be found where the pantheist wants to find it, suggesting that "evil" is merely a matter of our perception and that the world just is the way it is and we should get used to it.

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.

How much easier to produce moral musings than present the fresh challenge of the kingdom!

a great deal about what Jesus did between the time of his birth and the time of his death. In particular, they tell us about what we might call his kingdom-inaugurating work: the deeds and words that declared that God's kingdom was coming then and there, in some sense or other, on earth as in heaven. They tell us a great deal about that; but the great creeds don't.

The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living.

And it left, and leaves, the way open for the Nietzschean response that has once more come to the fore in our own day: who needs love when you can have power?

Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.

Far too much traditional church has consisted of too much tradition and not enough church.

This idea of God being faithful to the covenant clearly seems to be Paul's meaning here in Romans 3.