Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church Hardcover - 2008
by N. T. Wright
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For years Christians have been asking, "If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" It turns out that many believers have been giving the wrong answer. It is not heaven.
Award-winning author N. T. Wright outlines the present confusion about a Christian's future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how we live today. Wright, who is one of today's premier Bible scholars, asserts that Christianity's most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. He provides a magisterial defense for a literal resurrection of Jesus and shows how this became the cornerstone for the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people at the end of the age. Wright then explores our expectation of "new heavens and a new earth," revealing what happens to the dead until then and what will happen with the "second coming" of Jesus. For many, including many Christians, all this will come as a great surprise.
Wright convincingly argues that what we believe about life after death directly affects what we believe about life before death. For if God intends to renew the whole creation--and if this has already begun in Jesus's resurrection--the church cannot stop at "saving souls" but must anticipate the eventual renewal by working for God's kingdom in the wider world, bringing healing and hope in the present life.
Lively and accessible, this book will surprise and excite all who are interested in the meaning of life, not only after death but before it.
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- Title Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
- Author N. T. Wright
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperOne, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-02-05
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061551826 / 0061551821
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Library of Congress subjects Eschatology, Future life - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008297998
- Dewey Decimal Code 234.25
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2008, Page 16
- Christian Century, 05/15/2008, Page 36
- Christianity Today, 06/01/2009, Page 57
- Library Journal, 05/01/2008, Page 72
- Newsweek, 05/05/2008, Page 20
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