Why the Psalms Matter (NT Wright, 2014)
An interview with Tom Wright based on his book The Case for the Psalms
An interview with Tom Wright based on his book The Case for the Psalms
An interview ranging across mission, OT, ethics and other areas.
“At the heart of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is this enormous claim that something actually happened right there at the beginning of the first century through the work and death and resurrection of Jesus, something happened which has transformed the world”.
Hauerwas was interviewed by Sojourners editor Jim Wallis on November 8, 2001. A transcript of that interview follows.
“One of the things that liberal democratic society has encouraged Christians to believe about what they believe is that what it means to be a Christian is primarily belief!”
“The God that is called forward to God Bless America is not the God of Jesus Christ.”
“I don’t think our sexual ethics need to be reworked; I think we need to live them”.
“I can enter into just war considerations. And it’s not clear to me at all that the war in Afghanistan has been begun or fought on just war grounds. Particularly, it’s not clear who the war is against. Who’s your enemy? Under what conditions do they know that they can surrender? I just think all of that has remained completely ambiguous.”
There are three things that Aquinas can teach theologians at the beginning of the third millennium…First, that theology remains at the service of the Church and therefore is subject to the pleasure of the Roman Pontiff….Second, that the Christian thinker must interest himself in both nature and grace, faith and reason, Church and State….Third and finally, that the Christian thinker himself must live a holy life.