If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

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.

What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

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.

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.