Buku Surprised By Hope – N.T. Wright

 2009 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit in Theology and Ethics

“If  you died tonight, do you know where you would go?” Christians for many  years have been asking this question. As award-winning author N.T.  Wright points out however, the answer isn’t heaven. In Surprised by Hope,  Wright, one of today’s premier Bible scholars, asserts that  Christianity’s most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. He provides  a magisterial defense for a literal resurrection of Jesus and shows how  this became the cornerstone for the Christian community’s hope in the  bodily resurrection of all people at the end of the age. Wright then  explores our expectation of “new heavens and a new earth,” revealing  what happens to the dead until then and what will happen with the  “second coming” of Jesus. For many, including many Christians, all this  will come as a great surprise.

Wright convincingly argues that  what we believe about life after death directly affects what we believe  about life before death. For if God intends to renew the whole  creation—and if this has already begun in Jesus’s resurrection—the  church cannot stop at “saving souls,” but must anticipate the eventual  renewal by working for God’s kingdom in the wider world, bringing  healing and hope in the present life.

Title: Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, The   Resurrection, and The Mission of the Church
By: N.T. Wright
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 332
Vendor: HarperOne
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 2 ounces
ISBN: 0061551821
ISBN-13: 9780061551826
Stock No: WW551826