“Jesus’ death and resurrection is the foundation, the model, and the guarantee for God’s ultimate purpose, which is to rid the world of evil altogether and to establish his new creation of justice, beauty and peace.
And it’s clear from the start that this was not intended simply as a distant goal for which one was compelled to wait in passive expectation.
God’s future had already broken into the present in Jesus, and the church’s task consists not least of implementing that achievement and thus anticipating that future.”
– N. T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God, p. 102
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