John Vanderzyden

“This uncertainty in turn, of course, begets a new and anxious eagerness for certainty: hence the appeal of fundamentalism, which in today’s world is not so much a return to a premodern worldview but precisely to one form of modernism (reading the Bible within the grid of a quasi-or pseudoscientific quest for “objective truth”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today – From Leading Jesus Scholar N.T. Wright on Finding God's Voice

“Many today operate with two quite different types of “truth.” If we asked, “Is it true that Jesus died on a cross?” we normally would mean, “Did it really happen?” But if we asked, “Is the parable of the Prodigal Son true?” we would quickly dismiss the idea that “it really happened”; that is simply not the sort of thing parables are. We would insist that, in quite another sense, the parable is indeed “true” in that we discover within the narrative a picture of”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today – From Leading Jesus Scholar N.T. Wright on Finding God's Voice

“Since these are themselves “scriptural” statements, that means that scripture itself points—authoritatively, if it does indeed possess authority!—away from itself and to the fact that final and true authority belongs to God himself, now delegated to Jesus Christ.”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today – From Leading Jesus Scholar N.T. Wright on Finding God's Voice

“Anyone who has worked within biblical scholarship knows, or ought to know, that we biblical scholars come to the text with just as many interpretative strategies and expectations as anyone else, and that integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one’s presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones.”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today – From Leading Jesus Scholar N.T. Wright on Finding God's Voice