Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

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.

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.