Professor Wright has given us all a precious gift by “reminding” us and, more importantly, by explaining to us in persuasive detail that Jesus on Easter did not pass into some vague spiritual netherworld, but rather rose bodily from the dead. The resurrection, Dr. Wright correctly proclaims, represents the defeat of death and the inauguration of a new and transformed cosmos, both of heaven and earth, in which those who believe in him, each of … Continue reading A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment