N. T. Wright
N. T. Wright
Nicholas Thomas Wrightis a leading British New Testament scholar and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but is otherwise 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth1 December 1948
book want live-by
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
jesus mean escaping
Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
heart order scripture
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.
beautiful believe hands
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
jesus believe keys
I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question: If not us, then who? And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is?
mean resurrection life-after-death
Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
jesus prayer party
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.
jesus easter saving
Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God’s saving, sovereign kingdom...
christian mean baptism
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
thinking generations upheaval
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
jesus kings looks
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
jesus believe conservative
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
monsters horrible
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
christian father practice
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.