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Feb 27, 2008 · Pastors would do well to read the final chapters of Surprised by Hope. Wright gives food for thought on the nature of mission work and evangelism. He also offers practical advice on reinvigorating our anemic Easter celebrations. Surprised by Hope will be one of Wright’s most widely-read books. Though readers should proceed with caution ...
- Trevin Wax
Mar 2, 2010 · Wright’s understanding of the Christian hope is predicated upon the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. 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 ...
Surprised by Hope, though a rigorous and mind-stretching read in itself, appears to be Wright’s more popular version of The Resurrection of the Son of God. Some five months before Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast and decimated the city of New Orleans, I attended a debate in the Crescent City between Wright and John Dominic Crossan on the topic of the Resurrection.
A pastor friend of mine describes a church member walking into his office, hands trembling as he held a copy of Wright's Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of ...
On April 22, 2008, Bishop N.T. Wright and I sat down for a cup of coffee at Loew’s Vanderbilt Plaza in downtown Nashville. We discussed his new book, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Churchincluding some of the criticisms leveled against the book from Mark Dever, Doug Wilson and others. Below is the full transcript of our talk. To jump ahead to ...
Jul 19, 2018 · At the time of this book, Wright was the bishop of Durham, and his pastor’s heart shows through in this book. Perhaps the most difficult thing about Surprised by Hope is Wright’s identification of Christian hymnody and other worship music as a prime perpetrator of the confusion. For example, the final verse of “How Great Thou Art ...
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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 ...
