Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

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

God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.