Notes
Preface
Revelation 1:8.
Hebrews 13:8.
Series introduction: the Contemporary Christian – the then and the now
Psalm 119:105; cf. 2 Peter 1:19.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, enlarged edn (SCM Press, 1971), p. 279.
Matthew 11:19.
See Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries (Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 182–193.
2 Corinthians 11:4.
2 Timothy 1:15; cf. 4:11, 16.
Acts 26:25.
Ezekiel 2:6–7.
1 The human paradox
J. S. Whale, Christian Doctrine (1941; Fontana, 1957), p. 33.
Ibid., p. 41.
Genesis 1:26–28.
Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1806 (1983; Penguin, 1984).
Ibid., p. 31.
Ibid., p. 31.
Ibid., p. 32. See also pp. 37–39, 43, 166 and 177.
Genesis 1:26, 28; Psalm 8:5–8.
Genesis 2:7; 7:22.
Genesis 1:22, 28.
Psalms 73:22; 32:9.
Isaiah 1:3.
Jeremiah 8:7.
Proverbs 6:6–8.
Genesis 2:8, 15.
Genesis 3:8–9.
John 17:21.
Emil Brunner, Man in Revolt (1937; ET Lutterworth, 1939), pp. 419–420.
Act II, Scene 2.
Mark 7:14–15, 21–23.
Matthew 7:11.
Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, translated by Leif Sjöberg and W. H. Auden (Faber, 1964), pp. 128–129.
Mark 7:23.
Exodus 3:1–6; Isaiah 6:1–6; Ezekiel 1, especially verse 28.
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Geoffrey Bles, 1951), p. 185.
Richard Holloway at the Catholic Renewal Conference in Loughborough, April 1978.
See 2 Peter 3:13.
2 Authentic freedom
Daniel Halpern, ‘A Sort of Exile in Lyme Regis’, London Magazine, March 1971.
Luke 4:18–19, quoting Isaiah 61:1–2.
John 8:36.
Galatians 5:1.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897), Vol. 1, ch. 27.
Cf. Psalm 130:4.
John 8:31–34.
Philippians 3:10.
Ephesians 1:22.
Michael Ramsey, Freedom, Faith and the Future (SPCK, 1970), p. 12.
E.g. Hebrews 6:18; James 1:13; Habakkuk 1:13.
2 Timothy 2:13 (rsv).
Morris West, Children of the Sun (1957; Pan, 1958), pp. 94–95.
The interview appeared in Le Monde, and in an English translation in the Guardian Weekly on 23 June 1985.
Mark 8:35.
Matthew 11:28–30.
3 Christ and his cross
1 Corinthians 2:1–5.
1 Corinthians 1:20–21.
See 1 Corinthians 2:7.
C. H. Hodge, The First Epistle to the Corinthians (1857; Banner of Truth, 1959), p. 29.
2 Corinthians 5:11; cf. Acts 18:13.
J. Gresham Machen, The Christian Faith in the Modern World (1936; Eerdmans, 1947), p. 63.
Acts 17:34.
Acts 17:18.
For a fuller refutation of the popular reconstruction, see my The Message of Acts in the Bible Speaks Today series (IVP, 1990), pp. 289–290.
Acts 17:18, 21.
Acts 17:32.
1 Corinthians 1:23.
Galatians 3:13 (rsv).
Origen, Against Celsus, III. 34.
1 Corinthians 1:25.
The Guardian Weekly, 30 August 1979.
2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13.
Acts 17:16.
Acts 17:22.
1 Corinthians 8:5–6.
2 Corinthians 11:2–3.
1 Timothy 2:5.
For more on this topic, see ch. 1 of John Stott, The World (IVP, 2019).
1 Corinthians 1:26–29.
Emil Brunner, The Mediator (1927; Westminster, 1947), p. 474.
1 Corinthians 6:9–10.
Acts 16:21.
Acts 17:7.
1 Corinthians 2:3 (neb).
2 Corinthians 10:10.
2 Corinthians 12:7.
E.g. Galatians 4:13–14.
See hina (‘in order that’) in 2 Corinthians 4:7 and 12:9–10.
1 Corinthians 1:29–31.
4 The relevance of the resurrection
John 11:25–26.
Revelation 1:18.
Acts 4:2.
E.g. Acts 2:23–24, 32; 3:13–15; 5:30–32.
E.g. Acts 13:28–31.
Acts 17:18.
1 Corinthians 15:3–8.
Luke 24:39.
See Andrew Sinclair, Guevara (Fontana, 1970), especially pp. 70 and 88.
W. H. Lewis (ed.), Letters of C. S. Lewis (Geoffrey Bles, 1966), p. 307.
Revelation 1:18.
Rudolf Bultmann, Kerygma and Myth (1941; ET SPCK, 1953), pp. 38–42.
David Jenkins, Living with Questions (SCM Press, 1969), pp. 138–139. See also the critique by J. Murray Harris, entitled Easter in Durham (Paternoster, 1985).
From the television programme Credo in April 1984.
Peter Carnley, The Structure of Resurrection Belief (Clarendon Press, 1987), p. 17f.
Ibid., p. 164.
Ibid., pp. 200, 266.
Ibid., p. 368.
Acts 2:27.
E.g. Acts 2:23–32; 13:28–31, 37.
See e.g. Frank Morison, Who Moved the Stone? (Faber, 1930); J. N. D. Anderson, The Evidence for the Resurrection (IVP, 1950); Stuart Jackman, The Davidson File (Lutterworth, 1982); E. M. B. Green, The Day Death Died (IVP, 1982); J. W. Wenham, Easter Enigma (Paternoster, 1984); N. T. Wright, The Resurrection and the Son of God (SPCK, 2017).
Acts 4:2.
1 Corinthians 15:6.
Jack C. Winslow, Confession and Absolution (Hodder & Stoughton, 1960), p. 22.
Matthew 26:28.
Romans 6:23.
1 Corinthians 15:14, 17–18.
Ephesians 1:18–20.
Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship (1902; Unwin Paperbacks, 1976), pp. 10–17.
Graham McCann, Woody Allen: New Yorker (Polity Press, 1990), pp. 43 and 83.
Quoted in Frank Rich, ‘Woody Allen Wipes the Smile off His Face’, Esquire, May 1977, p. 75.
E.g. Philippians 3:21.
1 Corinthians 15:42–44.
1 Corinthians 15:20, 23.
Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5.
1 Corinthians 15:49.
Matthew 19:28.
Revelation 21:5.
Romans 8:20–23.
2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1.
1 Peter 1:3.
Professor Oliver O’Donovan goes much further than this in his formative book Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics (IVP and Eerdmans, 1986). He argues that the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation on which Christian ethics rests, because it proclaims that the created world order has been vindicated and reaffirmed by God; indeed, it has been redeemed, renewed and transformed. ‘From the resurrection we look not only back to the created order which is vindicated, but forwards to our eschatological participation in that order’ (p. 22), not only ‘back to what is reaffirmed there, the order of creation’, but also ‘forward to what is anticipated there, the kingdom of God’ (p. 26).
5 Jesus Christ is Lord
Romans 14:9 (rsv).
Romans 10:9.
1 Corinthians 12:3.
John 20:15.
Matthew 27:62–63.
Acts 2:21, 38.
Romans 10:12–13.
E.g. 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 3:11; 2 Thessalonians 1:2, 12; 2:16.
Cf. Acts 2:33–39.
Matthew 11:29.
2 Corinthians 10:5.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (1937; ET SCM Press, 1948), p. 31.
Romans 10:4 (rsv).
Romans 6:14.
Romans 8:4.
2 Corinthians 3:3, 6.
Jeremiah 31:33.
Ezekiel 36:27.
John 14:21.
Philippians 2:7.
Mark 10:45.
Luke 22:27.
Colossians 3:23–24.
Colossians 2:15.
Ephesians 1:20–22.
Matthew 28:18.
Ephesians 6:11–18.
l John 5:19.
David W. Gill, The Opening of the Christian Mind (IVP USA, 1989), p. 131.
Mark 12:17.
Acts 17:7.
Revelation 1:5.
Epistles, 10:96.
E.g. Exodus 1:15–17; Daniel 3 and 6; Acts 4:19; 5:29.
Romans 13:1–7.
Acts 5:29.
Institutes, IV.xx.32.
Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 2nd edn, translated and adapted by W. F. Arndt and F. W. Gingrich (University of Chicago Press, 1979).
Conclusion: The now and the not yet
Mark 1:15, as he translates ēngiken.
Matthew 12:28, ephthasen.
E.g. Mark 1:14–15; Matthew 13:16–17.
Matthew 12:28–29; cf. Luke 10:17–18.
Luke 17:20–21.
E.g. Mark 10:15.
Matthew 6:10.
Matthew 6:33.
Mark 9:47; cf. Matthew 8:11.
Matthew 25:34.
E.g. Isaiah 2:2; Matthew 12:32; Mark 10:30.
Galatians 1:4.
Colossians 1:13; cf. Acts 26:18; 1 Peter 2:9.
Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1.
E.g. Matthew 13:39; 28:20.
Romans 12:2; 13:11–14; 1 Thessalonians 5:4–8.
Romans 8:24; 5:9–10; 13:11.
Romans 8:15, 23.
John 5:24; 11:25–26; Romans 8:10–11.
Psalm 110:1; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8.
Romans 8:24.
Philippians 3:20–21; 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10.
Romans 8:19.
Romans 8:22–23, 26; 2 Corinthians 5:2, 4.
Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 1:7.
Romans 8:25.
E.g. Isaiah 32:15; 44:3; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28; Mark 1:8; Hebrews 6:4–5.
Romans 8:23.
2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:14.
Hebrews 6:4–5.
Psalm 119:105.
2 Corinthians 5:7.
Deuteronomy 34:10; cf. Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 3:24.
1 Corinthians 13:9–12.
Deuteronomy 29:29.
1 Thessalonians 4:7–8.
Galatians 5:16–26.
2 Corinthians 3:18.
Galatians 5:17.
1 John 1:8.
Philippians 3:12–14; 1:6.
E.g. Leviticus 19:2.
John 8:11 (rsv).
E.g. Romans 7:17, 20; 8:9, 11.
2 Corinthians 12:12 (rsv).
Revelation 11:15 (rsv).
Hebrews 6:5.
2 Corinthians 4:10–11.
Revelation 21:5.
Ephesians 5:27; cf. Revelation 21:2.
1 Timothy 6:12.
Ephesians 4:3.
Matthew 13:30.
2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1.
Mark 13:7.
Isaiah 2:4.