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Nicholas Thomas Wright FRSE (born 1 December 1948) is a leading English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but is also known as Tom Wright. Between 2003 and his retirement in 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham. He then became Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

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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.

Anarchy, Effort, Encourage, Justice, Retributive, World

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

Acquaintance, Actual, Firsts, Hands, Way

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.

Culture, India, Indian, Taking, Wish

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

Coming, Fall, High, Historical, Jerusalem, Same

Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

Conclusion, Giving, Jesus, Light, See

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Christian, Early, Father, Penalty, Practice, World

For the Deist. . . prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to. . . all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

Christian, Note, Our World, Pick, Prayer, Scribbling

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

Deeply, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Party, Prayer

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.

Christian, Kingdom, Lost, Play, Thinking

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

Biblical, Discipline, Felt, Testament, Write, Writing

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

Blind, Christian, Creation, Knowing, Thinking

There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.

Christian, Civic, Community, Differences, Nonviolence, Ordinary

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.

Awful, Dream, Pie, Problem, Think, Thinking

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

Faith, God, Great Faith, Needs

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

Everybody, Justice, Mean, People, Same, Way

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

Christian, Essence, Extra, Extras, Say

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

Command, Sex, Three, Two, Whenever

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death.

Jesus, Facts, Resurrection, Beginning, Ultimate

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Chance, Christian, Jesus, People

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

Century, Church, Churchgoing, Demise, Imminent, Predicted

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