How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Jesus’ announcement of the kingdom was, in short, the articulation of a new variant upon Israel’s basic worldview. The different elements of his announcement, which we study one by one in this Part of the book, should not therefore be conceived either as separate stages or as discrete themes within his work.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Jesus is obedient because God’s being is found in God’s act and this God of Israel is a minister (the being of God is revealed as minister, as one who reaches out to embrace and be with humanity—“ministry” and “minister” throughout the rest of this project will mean this act of sharing in the life of another for the sake of love and communion). Jes
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The point of the present kingdom is that it is the first-fruits of the future kingdom; and the future kingdom involves the abolition, not of space, time, or the cosmos itself, but rather of that which threatens space, time, and creation, namely, sin and death. The vision of 1 Corinthians 15 thus coheres neatly with that of Romans 8:18–27, and, for
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
In all of these, as in the ‘mighty works’ as a whole, what was ‘seen’ within the first-century Jewish worldview would be the restoration of creation, which Israel had expected to happen when her god became her king and she was vindicated by him.