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N.T. Wright
granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.
If the Christian claims for the New Testament are anywhere near the truth, we cannot see it as a safe garden into which Christians can retreat from their contemporary world. It must function as part of the challenge and address of the creator god to the contemporary world.
the idea of a ‘neutral’ or ‘objective’ history is a figment of post-Enlightenment imagination.
Authorial intent should not be excluded from this process, though it often is: for instance, when dealing with ancient texts we should remember that ancient commentators on rhetoric were perfectly well aware of the varied possible effects of narratives, and we are not bound to regard all the evangelists as ignorant of such ideas.
we find that human beings tell stories because this is how we perceive, and indeed relate to, the world.
it is Israel who is the beloved son of the creator god, and now there is apparently a son who stands both in Israel’s place and over against Israel.
