Tweetimonies: Donnie Stover
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Tweetimonies: Allen Black
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Tweetimonies: Buster Clemens
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Surprised by Hope: #6
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, N. T. Wright challenges us to rethink our notions of heaven and the implications of the doctrine of heaven for the entire Christian faith.
In Chapter Six Wright lays out the biblical answer to “What is God’s purpose for creation?” in contrast to the popular options explored in chapter five: evolutionary optimism (EO) and souls in transit (SIT). In summary, Wright argues that the early Christians did not believe the world was getting better and better on its own steam (EO) or that it was getting worse and worse and their task was to escape it (SIT). Instead, early Christians believed “that God was going to do for the whole cosmos was he had done for Jesus at Easter.”