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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by N. T. Wright Nicholas Thomas ("Tom") Wright (born 1 December 1948) is a leading New Testament scholar and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but otherwise tends to be known as Tom Wright. Between 2003 and his retirement in 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham. He is now Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Among modern New Testament... Read full biography of N. T. Wright → ← Ctrl 1 2 The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing... → 0 To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. 0 Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. 0 Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear. 0 Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter... → 0 A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine. 0 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. 0 It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we... → 0 I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty... → 0 Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful.... → 0 The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but... → 0 I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 Add a quote!


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