Meeting God in Paul Quotes

“It is not quite – despite long-standing conventional readings of this – that God has required Jesus to take our punishment. This is not what Paul is arguing at this point. It is more that God, through the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, has brought into the world what he himself most deeply is – selfless love; and thus has made possible a relation with himself that was not possible before. He has shown that he will see in us what we can be transformed into, seeing the future he himself desires to bring about in his act of new creation – and shown that he will bring this about by breathing into us the energy of Jesus’ Spirit, making us belong in and to him in Christ.”
― Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Paul: Reflections for the Season of Lent