“Emerging Peter: Heaven Hope” Scot McKnight

Emerging Peter: Heaven Hope is an article by Scot McKnight in the most recent edition of Next-Wave. Some good thoughts about heaven and eschatology.

Some today are so nervous about the problematic side of Heaven Hope that they’ve almost given it up: this is a mistake. The story of the biblical narrative is one that is not locked down entirely to what happens on earth; the story itself has chapters and chapters of what we have to call Eternity. But, that Heaven Hope does not justify escape from this world nor does justify an otherworldliness — what it justifies is hope and faithfulness.