The danger in any tradition (religious or otherwise) is that the very things that have been unique identifying markers of that tradition can become empty and meaningless. Void ritual! But the solution isn’t to abandon the tradition simply because it has been abused. The ...
I know you’ve heard this before: They’re so heavenly minded they’re no earthly good. Even though we hear the phrase less and less these days, there is a sense that if someone is really interested in life with God, if a person really believes in life after death, then ...
What does it mean to be a part of building the Kingdom of God? It means that all of the work the Lord does in us and through us is not done in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58). God will use every bit of it – some of it here, some of it in the hereafter. As I see it, this ...
In the previous sections, Wright said a preoccupation with “life after death” distracts us from the present work we are to accomplish here and now. In the twelfth chapter, Wright addresses our bungled notions about Jesus’ resurrection in order to develop a basis for ...
And now. . . the juicy stuff! After spending the first half of the book debunking much of the conventional wisdom about “heaven,” Wright takes up in chapter 11 the corollary issues of hell and purgatory. In light of recent controversy (and publicity!) among evangelicals ...
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