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

5.0

What is our hope for the future? And what does that hope mean for us today? Is our hope a pie-in-the-sky hope of being whisked away to heaven? Wright offers a beautiful re-imagination for the modern Christian that reclaims the biblical reality of heaven. Heaven is not, as we often think, a distant far-off spiritual reality. On the contrary, heaven is the “hidden dimension of our ordinary life" (p. 19). When we reframe our spirituality around this reality, we will stop wishing for the day when we will escape this world, but rather will be active agents of the new creation that is springing up around us as we await for Christ to redeem and restore all that is broken. As we live into a realized eschatology, we can truly pray "Thy Kingdom come" and then go out and be a part of it.