NT Wright in Surprised by Hope, pp. 152-154 This is the point at which we modern Westerners are called to make a huge leap of the imagination. We have been buying our mental furniture for so long from Plato’s factory that we have come to take for granted a basic ontological contrast between “spirit“ in […]
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The Jesus scholar, N.T. Wright, puts it bluntly: The death of Jesus of Nazareth as the king of the Jews, the bearer of Israel’s destiny, the fulfillment of God’s promises to his people of old, is either the most stupid, senseless waste and misunderstanding the world has ever seen, or it is the fulcrum around […]
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how does your view of scripture inform the sexuality debates today? Would your approach to the Bible allow, for example, the blessing of monogamous, lifelong same-sex relationships? http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2014/06/03/nt-wright-homosexuality-science-gender/ NTW: Monogamous, lifelong same-sex relationships were known in the ancient world as well as in the modern—there is plenty of evidence, despite what people sometimes say. When Jesus […]
It’s not as if we have only recently discovered through science that dead people don’t rise again to life. They knew that in Jesus’ day. “The reason Joseph was worried about Mary’s pregnancy was not because he didn’t know where babies come from but because he did.” – C.S. Lewis They knew dead people don’t […]