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N. T. Wright · 2007
A theological exploration of Christian hope regarding resurrection, the afterlife, and God's future plan, arguing that authentic Christian eschatology should energize present-day work for justice and God's kingdom. Wright, a biblical theologian, recovers early Christian teaching on bodily resurrection and connects ultimate hope with practical hope in the contemporary world.
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What this book knows
Bodily resurrection is not escape from the world but the launch of God's new creation, remaking everything that matters.
mortality
It is clearly physical: it uses up the matter of the crucified body; hence the empty tomb. But it comes and goes through locked doors — without precedent.
SH-RC-045The great slavemaster, sin and death themselves, had been defeated when Jesus came through the Red Sea of death and out the other side.
SH-RC-077grief
They showed a rich confusion of belief, half belief, sentiment, and superstition about the fate of the dead — grief unmoored from any coherent hope.
SH-RC-005faith-and-doubt
The intellectual coup d'état by which the Enlightenment convinced so many that 'dead people don't rise' was never a neutral thing, sociologically or politically.
SH-RC-061A boy of about seven, alone in a quiet room, finding himself overwhelmed with the sense of God's love revealed in the death of Jesus, reduced to tears.
SH-RC-239transformation
Everything done in the present world in the power of Jesus's resurrection will be celebrated and included, appropriately transformed, in God's new creation.
SH-RC-245Illuminates
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