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159 reviews for:
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N.T. Wright
4.33 AVERAGE
159 reviews for:
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N.T. Wright
4.33 AVERAGE
It helped me grapple with the unknown and how little we really do know yet at the same time live hopeful of our future and our ability to bring the Kingdom now.
I'm marking this book as finished, but it's the kind of book you never really "finish." Important to consult over and over, especially as a corrective to our culture's watering down of the powerful hope of resurrection. The orthodox message is so much more attractive than the sentimental or the cynical alternatives.
This book changed my whole paradigm of the Christian life. Wright does a beautiful job of positioning the work of Christ around the miracle of the resurrection. Taking a closer look at what you really believe, this book has the potential to completely rework what you thought you knew about our true purpose on the earth. By focusing our lives around what Christ has done and His resurrection and our subsequent (future) resurrection, it sets the correct lens for how we view and interact with this world and the anticipation of the world to come.
God, I needed this book when I first read it. Wright answers so many questions my teachers had mostly sidestepped, either out of ignorance or apathy, when I was growing up. Having been so thoroughly shaped by this book then, it isn't as impactful now, but that's okay. I also, appropriately enough, see more clearly the places where his application trails off, leaving others to do what he "hasn't the space here to do." Good work, all. Let's continue it in the full faith that none of it is vain.
Clears up so much of the fog and confusion. I really was surprised. And it's the hope that's surprising and wonderful.
Coming soon to a church near me: a post Easter sermon series based on this fabulous book.
This book brought up new theology that I hadn’t known before and I really enjoyed it.
For any serious student of Christianity, this one is not worth reading. A really, really, hackneyed, pointless attempt to force physical resurrection of Jesus into being an historical reality. If you think the actual, historical, physical resurrection of Jesus is the actual point of Christianity, you will spend your entire life, spinning your wheels, trying to make a fact out of an absurd tale. If you can live with the mythos of the resurrection and accept the mysterious, your faith has a chance to be about something other than pre-Enlightenment creedal statements. That's all the time I'll waste reviewing this one. It sucks.
Gave it 50 pages, but I felt like a dummy reading it. Read some summaries and reviews instead to get the gist, which *almost* makes me want to try again.
Very insightful book that makes clear the position of Christian hope both presently, and in ‘the life after, life after death’.