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The Modern Era · 2008
Surprised by Hope
N. T. Wright · b. 1948
In copyright
What it is
A New Testament historian argues that the Christian hope is not disembodied souls in heaven but resurrection into a renewed creation, and works out what that does to funerals, politics, and the point of present work.
Why it lasted
The most widely read recent corrective to popular Christian assumptions about the afterlife, and a fair sample of the historical scholarship standing behind it.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Still in copyright. The Library describes it and points you at it; the text belongs to its publisher.
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