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Surprised by Hope by: Tom Wright List Price: £12.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.09 You Save: £3.90 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 210 EAN: 9780281056170 ISBN: 028105617X Label: SPCK Publishing Manufacturer: SPCK Publishing Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 21, 2007 Publisher: SPCK Publishing Studio: SPCK Publishing Sales Rank: 1669 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Important ideas, clearly expressed, forcefully arguedIn many ways this book acts as a popular level summary of Wright's recent thinking, and that is both its strength and ultimately also its weakness. The book's big idea is that Jesus' bodily resurrection is not a one off event but rather the forerunner of the general resurrection, and that this is the key which makes sense of a great deal of new testament thinking, in the gospels and the letters and in Revelation. He contends that the loss of belief in the bodily resurrection being replaced by an idea of a non-corporeal heaven has resulted not only in a loss of appropriate hope for christians but also has wider consequences for theology and for how christians live their lives. These are important ideas, clearly expressed and forcefully argued. ... Read More: Rating:  - awesome bookthis is an awesome book which really makes you think. The main revelation for me in that we won't go up to heaven, but Jesus will come down to us...and we are currently living in the new world promised (through the resurrection of Jesus) and every bit of good we do with be enhanced and amplified by God and included in the new creation, new christians are new "bits" of creation and we have to work together to bring the new creation properly into focus - which, in God's timing, will brought about..obv the world now is still full of sadness and evil but this will be eliminated and the good left behind..Tom Wright tells it sooooo much better than me, so if my jumbled description which i'm still trying to get my head around has interested you at all, ... Read More: Rating: - Recovering a deeper understanding of the Christian hopeWhat are we waiting for? And what are we going to do about it in the meantime? These are the big questions Tom Wright asks right at the start of this wide-ranging examination of the classic Christian concept of hope. Characteristically thorough, but nevertheless crystal-clear throughout, Wright's book takes a critical look at an idea that, for Christians as much as for anyone else, has become rather `fuzzy'. But if you thought Christian hope was simply a matter of clocking into heaven when you die (perhaps after a period of dutiful post-death `journeying' - the idea of purgatory being very much in vogue, it seems), Wright may make you think again. Master of the pithy phrase, he draws the reader's attention to "life after `life after ... Read More: Rating: - Fantastic: thought provoking, challenging etc etcI haven't quite finished reading it yet, but I have been challenged and stretched in my thinking by every page so far! I realise that lots that I believe isn't based on a decision which linked my knowledge of scripture or other facts. So much of what I believe to be true is based on the country, time and church I grew up in. Wright has simply expanded my knowledge. Sometimes causing me to alter my 'beliefs', but more often than not giving me the reasons for my beliefs. e.g. why was purgatory introduced as a belief (I didn't agree with purgatory, but hadn't considered why I disagreed with it) Christianity is about giving my life to (having faith in) Jesus, now I will get into heaven and avoid hell. Heaven is not on ... Read More: |
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