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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitti...more

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Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might wa...more

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When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight pro...more

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I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designe...more

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Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a...more

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty o...more

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You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christians are welcome to believe it and others are welcom...more

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Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-...more

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In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, recorded by Luke (23.43). 'Today,'...more

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...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from watching a great athlete ...more

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True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matte...more

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Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theolo...more

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The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilistic, denying the very possibility of creative or h...more

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Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained within himself. Creatio...more

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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heave...more