Category: Eschatology
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C. Wright’s End of the World (Part 4)
Today we come to the final post on the “end of the world” section of Christopher Wright’s The God I Don’t Understand. We looked at the themes of the new creation in terms of the garden city, the glory of civilizations, the healing of nations, and the harmony of creation. Today we will look at…
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C. Wright’s End of the World (Part 3)
The New Beginning is the final chapter in Christopher Wright's The God I Don't Understand. We saw in an earlier post that Wright subscribes to N. T. Wright's characterization of "life after life after death." Heaven is a "transit lounge" on the way to the new creation. So what can we say about the new…
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C. Wright’s End of the World (Part 2)
Today we turn our attention to "The Great Climax" (Chapter 10 in the last section of Christopher Wright's The God I Don't Understand. Again, I'm just going to skim through the themes. The Day of the Lord At first, it was understood as the day when God would defeat Israel's enemies and end oppression. However,…
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Best of It: C. S. Lewis – The Christian Individual
[Series Index] [Today we move into Part 2 of Making the Best of It by John Stackhouse. We will look at three twentieth-century theologians Stackhouse considers resources for recovering Christian realism: C. S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He devotes about forty pages to each of these men. I aim to extract some salient…
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C. Wright’s End of the World
Over the last couple of years, I've been trying to coherently articulate my thoughts for some writing I want to do about the Kingdom of God and the New Creation at Christ's consummation. Not being a professional theologian and knowing what a vast minefield of issues is involved, I've approached this topic with considerable caution.…
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The Good Bishop Weighs In– Tom Wright on ‘Surprised by Hope’
Ben Witherington: The Good Bishop Weighs In– Tom Wright on 'Surprised by Hope' N.T. Wright's "Surprised by Hope" has been called an instant classic, and now with two years of positive reviews under its belt, it was time to sit down with the Bishop and ask some follow up questions which arise from some of…
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Self-Interest and Benevolence: Partners, not Antonyms (Part 6)
[Link to Part 5] Co-creators and Partners in Our Own Provision Over the last five posts, I've made the case that economic freedom has generated unprecedented abundance. People acting on what they believe to be in their best interests bid for goods and services, and people acting on their perceived best interest freely choose to…
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Keeping the End in View
Christianity Today: Keeping the End in View How the strange yet familiar doctrine of theosis can invigorate the Christian life. …As evangelicals, we know how to answer the question, "Are you saved?": If we have believed in Jesus Christ, we are saved—right there, right then. Sometimes, though, the way we talk about salvation makes it…