On Earth as in Heaven by N. T. Wright

Author:N. T. Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

Justice

“That was just ignorance; but the time for it has passed, and God has drawn a veil over it. Now, instead, he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has established a day on which he intends to call the world to account with full and proper justice by a man whom he has appointed. God has given all people his pledge of this by raising this man from the dead.”

—Acts 17:30–31, The Kingdom New Testament 276

God’s Putting-the-Word-to-Rights Future in the Present

The world has already been turned upside down; that’s what Easter is all about. It isn’t a matter of waiting until God eventually does something different at the end of time. God has brought his future, his putting-the-world-to-rights future, into the present in Jesus of Nazareth, and he wants that future to be implicated more and more in the present. That’s what we pray for every time we say the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” And that’s why that prayer goes on to pray for bread and forgiveness, which is, I suggest, where the issue of justice comes closest to our global village today.

—Surprised by Hope 215

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