Latest N. T. Wright Quotes from Interviews

• What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, America, Age

• What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, People, Today

• En la actualidad, en Estados Unidos, las "guerras culturales" de los últimos treinta años han dado lugar a un horrible enfrentamiento que nos obliga a todos a un binario "o lo uno o lo otro" con todo tipo de derivaciones. Esto es profundamente malsano. El problema es que, tal y como está configurado el sistema, para entrar en él e intentar cambiarlo hay que ser (a) millonario, (b) alguien que pueda trabajar dentro del sistema a largo plazo, (c) alguien dispuesto a llegar a acuerdos y compromisos... Lo que excluye a la inmensa mayoría de los cristianos comprometidos.

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  Christian, War, Order

• I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, War, Taken

• Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Believe, Democracy

• Si no se cuenta con autoridades cívicas debidamente constituidas, se fomentará el vigilantismo y los esfuerzos individuales de justicia retributiva, lo cual es anarquía, y Dios no quiere que su mundo sea anárquico.

  N. T. Wright

  Justice, Effort, World

• 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.

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  Christian, Differences, Community

• Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

• God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heaven, World

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

  N. T. Wright

  Hands, Way, Firsts

  Fuente: sojo.net

• God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.

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  Responsabilidad, Gobierno, Iglesia

  Fuente: sojo.net

• Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Justice, Working Together

  Fuente: sojo.net

• All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

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  Government, Justice, Needs

  Fuente: sojo.net

• Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

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  Wise, Government, Temptation

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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.

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  Jesus, Light, Giving

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart.

  N. T. Wright

  Fall, Two, Loving Someone

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• Una y otra vez, el Sermón de la Montaña nos llama y nos desafía a una vida de discipulado radical. Nota: cuando Jesús dice "Bienaventurados los... misericordiosos, los pacíficos", etc., no sólo quiere decir que ellos mismos son bienaventurados. Quiere decir que la bendición del Reino de Dios actúa precisamente a través de esas personas en todo el mundo. Así es como llega el Reino de Dios. Es algo que hay que oír de nuevo.

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  Jesus, Blessed, Mean

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is a central and ongoing part of Christian commitment, precisely because in Jesus Christ God has unveiled and launched his plan for the rescue, redemption and renewal of the whole creation. Justification and justice go very closely together.

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  Cristiano, Jesús, Creer

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• Ciertamente, Pablo comparte la opinión de los profetas del Antiguo Testamento de que Dios inundará un día el mundo de justicia y alegría, y que esto ha empezado a cumplirse en la resurrección de Jesús.

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  Jesus, Views, Justice

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• La visión de Pablo, sin embargo, empieza en pequeño, con comunidades reales en las que hay que practicar la reconciliación y la justicia, como la distinción entre ricos y pobres en la iglesia de Corinto, por ejemplo, o la proyectada reconciliación entre Filemón y Onésimo. Pero cree claramente (Efesios 3) que este tipo de comunidades envían una señal al resto del mundo de que Jesús es el Señor, con el fin de que todo el mundo se ponga de acuerdo.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Justice

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.

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  Christian, Vision, God's Faithfulness

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and its scriptures but also, by clear implication, with philosophical and political issues that were 'out there' at the time. The thing is that for Paul this is all part of the same larger, whole vision of God and God's purposes. Watching how everything comes together is an intellectual treat of the first order - as well as a spiritual and practical challenge to me personally and to the church.

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  Spiritual, Philosophical, Wrestling

  Fuente: kenwytsma.com

• When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

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

• If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

  N. T. Wright

  People, England, Doe

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

• The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

  N. T. Wright

  Energy, Enabling, Spirit

  Fuente: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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