A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.
N.T. Wright...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
N.T. Wright...spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.
N.T. WrightThe author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.
N.T. WrightTag: spirituality worship secularism spontaneity rationalism
The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched for which would explain their behavior. This, he says, is actually how the more distant planets were discovered. We look, then, for something that would explain what is not inexplicable from what we already see.
N.T. WrightChristians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.
N.T. WrightTag: redemption depravity regeneration fallen-creation
Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.
N.T. WrightTag: bible sovereignty-of-god
Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.
N.T. WrightTag: humanism theology man-centered
Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.
N.T. WrightTag: worship discipleship
The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative.
N.T. WrightTag: bible worship word-of-god exposition
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