John Vanderzyden

“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

“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

“late modernity has tried to squeeze more and more areas of human discourse into the first type of “truth,” making a “fact” out of everything and thereby trying to put everything into the kind of box which can be weighed, measured, and verified as if it were an experiment in the hard sciences like chemistry, or even an equation in mathematics. But this attempt has overreached itself, not least in areas like history and sociology.”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

“In what sense is the Bible authoritative in the first place? How can the Bible be appropriately understood and interpreted? How can its authority, assuming such appropriate interpretation, be brought to bear on the church itself, let alone on the world?”
― N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today