Pauline Perspectives Quotes

“if we suffer with Christ, we shall also be glorified with him’, which leads him to the picture of the new creation, and of our place within it, in 8.18–25, pointing to the final summary in 8.30: those he justified, them he also glorified. So, we might want to ask: is this future ‘glory’ the glory proper to God himself, now shared with his people in a kind of theōsis? Or is it ‘the glory of Adam’, as we might expect from the exposition of the two forms of humanity in 5.12–21? The answer, I believe, is that it is both. The Spirit – a major theme, of course, in chapter 8 – pours out the love of God in our hearts (5.5), so that we cry ‘Abba, Father’, and thus, being ourselves filled with the divine life, become more truly and genuinely human.”
― N.T. Wright, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013

“The mystery of Jesus Christ, for Paul, is that in him is revealed not only the glory of the one creator God but the true glory of humankind, lost at the fall.”
― N.T. Wright, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013

“He is himself the Temple, the physical place on earth where the Shekinah has come to take up residence.”
― N.T. Wright, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013