Nicholas Perrin > Quotes

“As important as Jesus’ royal messianic aspect may be, the evidence suggests that he subordinated his royal identity to his primary identity as priest. Jesus sought to implement not a theocracy but a hierocracy under the God of Israel.”
― Nicholas Perrin, Jesus the Priest

“those who see the kingdom of God as something falling outside of their own day-to-day reality. For these, it’s not that the kingdom isn’t real; it’s just that it’s real only on the inside. Such might agree with the eighteenth-century writer Louisa May Alcott when she writes, “A little kingdom I possess/ Where thoughts and feelings dwell.”
― Nicholas Perrin, The Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology

“Yet the distinctive nature of that ‘privileging’ is the convergence of priesthood and suffering, for as Davies also observes: ‘If Christian interpreters have tended to see priesthood in terms of missionary service, a typically Jewish reading is to see it in terms of suffering.”
― Nicholas Perrin, Jesus the Priest

“Inheritance is as integral to sonship as sacred space is to the priestly office.”
― Nicholas Perrin, Jesus the Priest

“The anti-cultic attitude is rooted in the theology of Martin Luther. Protestant scholars have dominated modern biblical scholarship until recently. This is especially true for German scholarship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which is still influential today. Aversion to ritual dominates this scholarship.”
― Nicholas Perrin, Jesus the Priest