I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.