![]() He likens it to a builder of a cathedral, perhaps working only on one corner of one wall, unclear to her what the final product will even be. The caricature is that Earth is simply a trial for heaven and hell that will pass with little remnant or afterthought once we’re in glory, so why muddle ourselves in “worldly things”? Keep our focus elsewhere. Wright contends that in the same way Christians can elevate heaven to something so otherworldly that it bears no resemblance to our human experience, we can minimize Earth in a way that has nothing worth saving. While Wright’s book lacks the tantalizing sections like how we’d survive heaven if all mosquitoes were resurrected, its back half is much more relevant for the here and now. ![]() Wright’s book Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. ![]() ![]() One of the women in the group sensed my somewhat sour political mood and lent me N.T. ![]() Until recently.Ī group of friends and I were talking about presidential politics, artificial intelligence and cancel culture, among other not-so-rosy topics. This view of heaven was novel and compelling to me when I first read about it, but I also haven’t thought about it much since. ![]()
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