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In the light of God’s grace

Some words to savour from N.T. Wright on Romans 5:12-21 The overwhelming impression left by these verses is the superabundance of grace. However much theologians and preachers know this with their heads, and explain it as a theory, it remains strange and surprising that it should actually be true, that it should be the central characteristic [...]
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Dogmatics

Dogmatics is the system of the knowledge of God as he has revealed himself in Christ; it is the system of the Christian religion. And the essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God and [...]
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Jesus is the hero of the play

The earth goes round the sun. Jesus is the hero of the play, and we are the bit-part players, the Fifth servant and Seventh Footman who come on for a moment, say one word, and disappear again, proud to have shared his stage, and, for a moment, been a tiny part in his action. Wright, T. [...]
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