N. T. Wright Quotes - Page 9

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• I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into... not least, the sacraments.

  N. T. Wright

  Moving, Biblical, Space

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!"

  N. T. Wright

  Giving, Challenges, Bishops

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.

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  Christian, Believe, People

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

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  Dad, Ministers, Businessman

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.

  N. T. Wright

  Age, Ministry, God Love

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

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  Spiritual, Kids, Journey

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

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  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• 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.

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  Sex, Two, Three

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• 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.

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  Christian, Mean, Baptism

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

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  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

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  Depressing, Real, Taken

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• Rest you well, beloved Jesus,
  Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King,
  In the brooding of the Spirit,
  in the darkness of the spring

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  Jesus, Kings, Spring

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• Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

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  Stewardship, Worship, Creation

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• Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.

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  Real, School, Thinking

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses.

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  Hymns, Important, Church

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.

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  Age, Together, Stuff

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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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.

  N. T. Wright

  Wish, India, Culture

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.

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  Writing, People, Perspective

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

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  Sarcastic, Lonely, Giants

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• My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

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  Way, Scripture, Aim

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, Stuff, Doctrine

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

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  Catholic, Grace, Mets

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.

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  Interesting, Interpreter

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". Interview with Trevin Wax, www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

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  Thinking, Generations, Upheaval

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