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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
I've got good reasons to want to read this book, but I'm having a terrible time getting through it. Switching to audio edition in hopes that that will help. I'm not sure why I'm having so much difficulty focusing, remembering what I read, etc. Just a real struggle.
This is a wonderful refreshing read from N.T. Wright! Starting from a close reconsideration of the doctrine of the general resurrection as an explicitly embodied concept he moves into an explication of the consequences of remembering orthodoxy elsewhere in eschatology and in the church. He biblical exegesis is rock solid and vintage Wright, and quite readable, oftentimes a distillation of the more technical work in "Resurrection and the Son of God". It does seem that he tries to pack a bit too much into this volume as his ethical reflections in the closing chapters are a bit thin at times. Overall I highly recommend this as a refreshing read and an excellent entry point into re-considering embodiment.
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Rediscovering Easter
In this book, Wright shows how the Church's teachings about Christ's resurrection and its meaning for the future have devolved over time to a muddled view of a disembodied, ethereal afterlife. Wright reintroduces the reader to the early church's understanding of Easter and resurrection and how it fits with God's plan for a new heaven and a new earth.
In this book, Wright shows how the Church's teachings about Christ's resurrection and its meaning for the future have devolved over time to a muddled view of a disembodied, ethereal afterlife. Wright reintroduces the reader to the early church's understanding of Easter and resurrection and how it fits with God's plan for a new heaven and a new earth.
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Paradigm shifting in many ways. I found this to be incredibly encouraging and invigorating to my soul. A scholarly, Biblical theology to understanding and practicing the mission of the which in the modern age.
Paradigm shifting in many ways. I found this to be incredibly encouraging and invigorating to my soul. A scholarly, Biblical theology to understanding and practicing the mission of the which in the modern age.
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One of the most paradigm - shifting books on Christian theology and living I've read. Wright shatters the incomplete narrative that says the gospel is simply a matter of justification and atonement, and invites the reader to see and believe how it stretches further--so much further, in fact, that it lands in eternity. This eternity, Wright reveals, full of such immense hope, is so poorly understand by the modern church as to be some disembodied, spiritual existence of constant worship. Rather, he demonstrates that our hope is in the promised coming of Christ's Kingdom here on Earth--not the same one, but a redeemed one, a remade one, one with ourselves actually in it, redeemed, remade, and resurrected too. Our future is not "up in heaven," but in this New Earth, Earth and heaven and all things as they were meant to be, with all the beauty of work and opportunity for creation that entails. And this, he argues, is the full promise of Christ. Not just salvation FROM sin, but salvation INTO an inheritance and Kingdom and resurrected body. This remaking of us and the world is why Christ came, and this is the story God has been writing and preparing us for since the beginning. It was always so much bigger than us.
One of the most helpful things this book accomplishes is its exposure of the far too many habits, practices, and common forms of speaking of the church that distort this truth and dim this hope. In response, Wright calls for vigilant hope - bringing among God's people--affirming our future as resurrected, bodily beings, celebrating and looking forward to the coming renewal of the Earth and even human culture / institutions, and speaking honestly and comprehensively about the Christian gospel as a grander narrative of world-shattering, life-changing hope.
One of the most helpful things this book accomplishes is its exposure of the far too many habits, practices, and common forms of speaking of the church that distort this truth and dim this hope. In response, Wright calls for vigilant hope - bringing among God's people--affirming our future as resurrected, bodily beings, celebrating and looking forward to the coming renewal of the Earth and even human culture / institutions, and speaking honestly and comprehensively about the Christian gospel as a grander narrative of world-shattering, life-changing hope.
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced