Surprised by Hope

For years, Christians have been asking, "If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" It turns out Christians have been giving the wrong answer. It is not heaven. One of today's premier Bible scholars and award-winning authors, N.T. Wright, outlines the present confusion about a Christian's future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how we live today. Wright demonstrates that Christianity's most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. First, he provides a comprehensive defense of a literal resurrection of Jesus himself, which became the cornerstone for the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people at the end of the age. Next, Wright explores our expectation of "new heavens and new earth," showing what happens to the dead until then and what will occur with the "second coming" of Jesus. For many, including many Christians, all this will come as a surprise.