N. T. Wright

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

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.