John Vanderzyden

“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

“God and his love, and of multiple layers of human folly, which rings true at all kinds of levels of human knowledge and experience.”
― 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

“Thus (a) understanding the world, (b) understanding reality, and (c) understanding myself all threaten to collapse into a morass, a smog of unknowing, of not even knowing what “knowing” itself might mean.”
― 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

“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