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  1. Feb 27, 2008 · But Surprised by Hope stands out in the amount of material that Wright is able to incorporate into a single volume and in the moving way in which he makes his case. This book carries an emotional resonance rarely encountered among works of theology. At times, Wright’s description of the Christian hope so moved me that I found myself wiping ...

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  2. May 30, 2007 · Let me also say that anyone considering reading Rob Bell's latest, Love Wins, should skip that book and read this instead. Surprised By Hope is much better written, contains all of the good theology present in Love Wins (or more accurately, Love Wins contains Surprised By Hope's theology) and avoids and corrects the major theological errors in ...

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  3. Mar 2, 2010 · Surprised by Hope therefore summarizes Wright’s older, massive, and outstanding book The Resurrection of the Son of God. What is important to see here is that the resurrection is irreducibly physical. People in the ancient world believed in spirits, ghosts, and the like, but they did not confuse things like these with the idea of a resurrection.

    • The World Has A Future
    • Platonised Christianity
    • Resurrection
    • Launched Kingdom
    • Problems with The Cross

    Most of all it is an attempt to make the connection between future hope and present living; to show the logic of the church’s present mission in light of its future destiny.

    Wright begins with the observation that most people, Christian and non-Christian, have a highly Platonised understanding of Christianity. They think that the Christian hope is simply that we will go to heaven when we die, leaving this poor world behind forever. His problem with that is not just that it misunderstands the Bible, but that it complete...

    In the core sections of the book, Wright shows that the overall plan and purpose of God is not just to snatch a few up to some ethereal heaven, but to redeem and restore and renew his creation and to reign over it as king. At the end of the Book, we don’t go up; the new Jerusalem comes down. There will be a new heaven and new earth over which Jesus...

    What then is the mission of the church? Wright describes it as ‘building for the kingdom’ (not building the kingdom, which he repeatedly insists is God’s work). The key is the understanding that we now live in a world where God’s kingdom has already been launched. ‘Every act of love, every deed done in Christ and by the Spirit … takes its place wit...

    So what not to like? A few things. He states that his authority is ‘Scripture, tradition and reason, taken together in their proper blend’, but happily he bases his arguments squarely upon Scripture. Parts of the book are hard going. His discussion of eternal torment versus annihilation offers a third alternative which few will like. Some of his ex...

  4. This book, then, ‘Surprised by Hope’, is of a rather different bent. It is primarily, both self-explanatorially (definitely not a real word) and by reading it, about the Christian Gospel of hope grounded in the key terms ‘salvation, resurrection and eternal life’. But it is also about the way in which hope can be discovered in the ...

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  7. Apr 29, 2008 · Surprised by Hope is far more two-fisted and pragmatic than anything Lewis ever wrote, and it’s more appealingly humble than it ever occurred to Milton to be. And in its care and gentle zeal, it’s worth the attention of all the faithful. And maybe the good bishop will choose his next book’s title less cavalierly. The World from Beginnings ...

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