Reviews

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright

audriew9's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book helped shaped my theology around eschatology. Wright steps outside of the American theology around end times and death and takes a look at what the Bible says.

scdominick's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

dylan_pluke's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

amberinhonduras's review against another edition

4.0

So much info to unpack but very accessible. The hope of the resurrection is definitely alive in the world today. This book challenged the why of several long held beliefs and I think I need to reread it more slowly in order to fully evaluate my beliefs against it and the Bible. Definitely intrigued and encouraged by his words.

themtj's review against another edition

5.0

Amazing. The best one-book summary on hope and the resurrection. Any minor disagreements I have with Wright are drastically overshadowed by the watershed and momentous work in identifying the biblical thrust of hope and the western church's negligence of it.

battlefieldpoet's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

3.5

N.T. Wright has a lot of solid theology, and amazing ideas. However I think one thing he lacks is that it comes across that he spends too much time in the ivory towers above the peopl, and does not know too many of them. He often paints people with a broad brush and lacks nuance in terms of people's reasoning for what they may believe about certain issues. 

carizwerg's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

ehayden6's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring slow-paced

5.0

nickjonesreadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

When I read Evil and the Justice of God, I had a lot of questions on how Wright arrived at some of his beliefs. Many of those questions were answered in this helpful book. Wright takes a look at the Biblical evidence for the after-life (or as he puts it "life after life after death"), revealing that many popular--even in the church--beliefs are not, in fact, Biblical. Instead, he presents the Biblical evidence and pushes forward into its implications for today and the future. While I'm not quite sure how I feel about certain of his inferences (debt forgiveness for example), I do appreciate the fact that Wright draws conclusions for how Christians should think and act in their personal lives and in the worship and service of the Church.

micklz24's review against another edition

5.0

This book is brilliant. N.T. Wright is brilliant. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.