Simply Christian (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Chris Tian: Add a description of this character.
• Paul
• John
• Abraham
• Isaiah
• David
• Daniel
• Jacob
• Mark
• Thomas
• Matthew
• Herod
• Jeremiah

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• “Those who worship power become more and more ruthless”

• “Those who worship sex become obsessed with their own attractiveness or prowess”

• “When you gaze in love and gratitude at the God in whose image you were made, you do indeed grow”

• “You discover more of what it means to be fully alive”

• “The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights”

• “We are called to model and display that new creation in symphonies and family life, in restorative justice and poetry, in holiness and service to the poor, in politics and painting”

• “As we might say to someone starting to enjoy music: don't just listen to it, find an instrument and an orchestra and join in”

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• Christianity is all about the belief that the living God, in fulfillment of his promises and as the climax of the story of Israel, has accomplished all this—the finding, the saving, the giving of new life—in Jesus.

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• We honor and celebrate our complexity and our simplicity by continually doing five things. We tell stories. We act out rituals. We create beauty. We work in communities. We think out beliefs.

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• One of the central elements of the Christian story is the claim that the paradox of laughter and tears, woven as it is deep into the heart of all human experience, is woven also deep into the heart of God.

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• “Heaven” in this latter, very common biblical sense is God’s space as opposed to our space, not God’s location within our space-time universe. The question is then whether God’s space and our space intersect; and if so how, when, and where.

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• The beauty of the natural world is, at best, the echo of a voice, not the voice itself.

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• Or we can say, if we like, that the reason we have these dreams, the reason we have a sense of a memory of the echo of a voice, is that there is someone speaking to us, whispering in our inner ear—someone who cares very much about this present world and our present selves, and who has made us and the world for a purpose which will indeed involve justice, things being put to rights, ourselves being put to rights, the world being rescued at last.

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• People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted. People kept without food for long periods will eat anything they can find, from grass to uncooked meat. Thus by itself “spirituality” may appear to be part of the problem as well as part of the solution.

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• But the point of the Spirit is to enable those who follow Jesus to take into all the world the news that he is Lord, that he has won the victory over the forces of evil, that a new world has opened up, and that we are to help make it happen.

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• It’s no part of Christian belief to say that the followers of Jesus have always got everything right. Jesus himself taught his followers a prayer which includes a clause asking God for forgiveness. He must have thought we would go on needing it.

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• The gentle art of being gentle—of kindness and forgiveness, sensitivity and thoughtfulness and generosity and humility and good old-fashioned love—have gone out of fashion. Ironically, everyone is demanding their “rights,” and this demand is so shrill that it destroys one of the most basic “rights,” if we can put it like that: the “right,” or at least the longing and hope, to have a peaceful, stable, secure, and caring place to live, to be, to learn, and to flourish.

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• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Judaism
• Temple
• Rome
• Egypt
• Nazareth
• Babylon
• Heaven
• Gethsemane
• Palestine
• Islam
• Syria

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. N. T. Wright (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 230

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Theology › Apologetics
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Authors, A-Z › ( W ) › Wright, N.T.