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    An Interview with N.T. Wright

    May 20, 2010 // 1 Comment »

    The guys over at Homebrewed Christianity recently posted an interview they did with N.T. Wright.  The interview was full of some really great sound bytes that I went ahead and divvied up to make your life easier ;)

    You can listen to or download the interview in its entirety here.

    On being a bishop. 

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    On the unfortunate split between church and academy.

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    On returning to fulltime academic work.

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    On Bart Ehrman.

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    On John Shelby Spong.

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    On Luke Timothy Johnson.

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    On Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan.

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    On Jurgen Moltmann.

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    On E.P. Sanders.

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    On Karl Barth.

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    On Stanley Hauerwas.

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    On his most recent book, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters and why he chose to write about eschatology before ethics. 

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    On the difference between Aristotelian virtue and Christian virtue.

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    On the role of character and virtue in other religions.

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    On cultural virtue.

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    On the renewing of our minds when they have become largely detached from the rest of who we are.

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    On Christianity Post-Postmodernity.

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    On the after-after life.

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    What NT Wright is reading, thinking, and planning for his “big book on Paul” as the next in his Christian Origins series.

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    What we can expect from NT Wright in his new role.

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    My Heaven or God’s Heaven

    September 16, 2008 // 2 Comments »

    Lost in ponderings of Heaven this afternoon, I had this thought…

    The “Heaven” held out to us in Scripture is not a place or state where everything is finally the way I want it, but a place or state where everything is finally the way God wants it.  It is the fulfillment of all that God ever intended for all of creation.

    This, I think, makes all the difference in the world in terms of how we live our lives.  What if our desires and our affections never become more aligned to God’s?  What if things like selflessness, sacrifice, generosity, patience, and love never take root in our lives, and then we come to Heaven only to find these to be the most fundamental expressions of life.  How great would our suffering be in a place where, for all of eternity, life was made truly enjoyable only by virtue of these ways of being – when we have no capacity for them?

    It seems to me that our experience and enjoyment of this sort of Heaven, if this life is to be at all meaningful, corresponds directly to the degree to which God’s heart takes root in our own.  A humbling thought to say the least.

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