N. T. Wright Quotes About Resurrection

Quotes about: Resurrection

• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, World

• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

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  Jesus, Powerful, Different

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Dec 18, 2012

• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

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  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

• 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.

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  Jesus, Facts, Resurrection

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

• Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

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  Easter, World, Resurrection

  N. T. Wright (2009). “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church”, p.29, Harper Collins

• Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

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  Tyrants, Doe, Covenant

• All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.

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  Wise, Mother, Jesus

• The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Easter, Heaven

• What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

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  Work Out, Optimism, May

  N. T. Wright (2009). “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church”, p.25, Harper Collins

• We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

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  Self, Objectivity, Knowing

• The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.

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  Powerful, Oddities, Heaven

• 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).

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  Jesus, Heaven, World

• ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

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  Christian, Easter, People

• The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

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  Christian, Names, Giving

• The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

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  Giving, World, Want

• Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

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  Rooms, Etc, Thieves

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

• Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

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  Jesus, Mean, Escaping

• Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Views, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

• Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

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  Mean, Resurrection, Life After Death

• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

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  Jesus, Easter Season, Funny Easter

• It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

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  Christian, Jesus, Woven

• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

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  Jesus, Mean, People

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