N. T. Wright Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

  N. T. Wright

  Scripture, Tradition, Guides

• Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mean, Writing

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

• I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Faithful, Different

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

• One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

  N. T. Wright

  Honesty, Hats, Tradition

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Hymns, Important, Church

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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