Gain an exciting new vision for your life on earth in light of your future in heaven. Wonderful as is the promise of heaven, a glorious hereafter is just part of what salvation is about. What about today? Jesus called his followers the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Your life here and now is of tremendous consequence, and what you believe about the future has a direct impact on how you live in the present. In six transforming, faith-inspiring sessions, premier biblical scholar N. T. Wright opens your eyes to the amazing full scope of what God's Word has to say about the world to come and the world that is. Filled with discussion questions, thoughts for reflection, and ideas for personal application, this study guide will help you get the most out of each session as you explore such questions as ? What is heaven really like? ? Is our main duty as Christians simply to help non-Christians get there? ? What hope does the gospel hold for this present life? ? In what ways does God intend for us to experience that hope personally and spread its healing power to the world around us? Surprised by Hope will give you a clearer vision both of the future and of God's kingdom at hand today. 1. Hope 2. Resurrection 3. Heaven 4. Second Coming 5. Salvation 6. Church Designed for use with the Surprised by Hope DVD.
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Gain an exciting new vision for your life on earth in light of your future in heaven. Wonderful as is the promise of heaven, a glorious hereafter is just part of what salvation is about. What about today? Jesus called his followers the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Your life here and now is of tremendous consequence, and what you believe about the future has a direct impact on how you live in the present. In six transforming, faith-inspiring sessions, premier biblical scholar N. T. Wright opens your eyes to the amazing full scope of what God's Word has to say about the world to come and the world that is. Filled with discussion questions, thoughts for reflection, and ideas for personal application, this study guide will help you get the most out of each session as you explore such questions as ? What is heaven really like? ? Is our main duty as Christians simply to help non-Christians get there? ? What hope does the gospel hold for this present life? ? In what ways does God intend for us to experience that hope personally and spread its healing power to the world around us? Surprised by Hope will give you a clearer vision both of the future and of God's kingdom at hand today. 1. Hope 2. Resurrection 3. Heaven 4. Second Coming 5. Salvation 6. Church Designed for use with the Surprised by Hope DVD.
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N. T. Wright is the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the award-winning author of many books, including of After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Challenge of Jesus, and The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg), as well as the series Christian Origins and the Question of God.
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By J. Hatch
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The participant's guide for N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope is excellent in and of itself even as a skim. However, the Guide presumes that you also have a DVD to anchor the study. Amazon does not mention this in its offering. On the back cover of the Guide which I purchased, I discovered ISBN 0-25986-32472-8 with the phrase "Designed for use with the Surprised by Hope DVD" -- Enter the ISBN and up comes the books themselves, but no DVD. I will have to go to Zondervan, the publisher to try to acquire the DVD. Amazon's book publicists need to add this caveat if they do not plan to sell the DVD with the Guide.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reestablishing the relevance of Resurrection for the broad public
September 21, 2012
Format:Paperback
N. T. Wright is a brilliant scholar and theologian, and his series of books on early Christianity has become somewhat of a gold standard in terms of breath and scope of topics and themes that were explored. Those books use the most exhaustive critical methods and most up to date historical scholarship in order to establish the credibility and persuasiveness of the events that shaped the early Christianity, and especially to support the traditional view of those events. The most important of these events is certainly the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the book that exhaustively deals with is The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3). The only "problem" with that book is that it is too long and scholarly for a general reader, and thus it may not reach as wide of an audience as would be desirable. This is partly the issue that "Surprised by Hope" tries to address. It reiterates some of the main points of "The Resurrection" and presents them in readable and accessible form. It makes the main arguments far more succinctly, but also more forcefully. The chief one of those, in my opinion, is that Christianity is not mainly or even primarily concerned with "life after death," but rather with "life after life after death." This is the point that most Christians and non-Christians routinely get wrong. What is at stake, according to Wright, is that by misunderstanding what resurrection and Christian hope are all about we are much less equipped to give a strong defense of that hope and make that hope relevant for our daily life. It prevents us from living the kind of life that would fully reflect our Christian vocation in the World.
The second part of the book deals with the issues that Wright thinks would benefit from our deeper understanding of resurrection and Christian hope. He has some of his own pet issues that he believes should receive top priority in our concern for the World, like the alleviation of poverty in the global south. He tries to make the connection between our belief in the future resurrection and our action on these issues, but the connection is not always as clear as he might have hoped for. This is particularly the case with some issues of lesser importance, and towards the end of the book Wright employs more of rhetoric than strong concrete arguments. The book becomes a bit too preachy for my taste, but that shouldn't be too surprising: after all, it was written by a bishop. However, even with these shortcoming this is an extremely well written book that provokes Christians to seriously rethink their most fundamental assumptions and reappropriate the message of Christian hope for the 21st century.
The second part of the book deals with the issues that Wright thinks would benefit from our deeper understanding of resurrection and Christian hope. He has some of his own pet issues that he believes should receive top priority in our concern for the World, like the alleviation of poverty in the global south. He tries to make the connection between our belief in the future resurrection and our action on these issues, but the connection is not always as clear as he might have hoped for. This is particularly the case with some issues of lesser importance, and towards the end of the book Wright employs more of rhetoric than strong concrete arguments. The book becomes a bit too preachy for my taste, but that shouldn't be too surprising: after all, it was written by a bishop. However, even with these shortcoming this is an extremely well written book that provokes Christians to seriously rethink their most fundamental assumptions and reappropriate the message of Christian hope for the 21st century.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a guide (alleged) to go with NT Wright's Book of same name. The problem is that the Guide really goes with the DVD, and the Guide and DVD are not "companioned" together. The DVD might be useful without the Guide, but the reverse is certainly not true. The book has 15 chapters, the Guide has been divided into 6 segments, designed to align with the DVD, also in 6 segments. So don't buy it thinking you can use it with the book -- it doesn't work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a richly refreshing review of Christian eschatology
Bishop Wright has challenged the church to believe in a resurrection of involvement rather than a rapture of retreat. Hope springs from every carefully considered word.
Published 22 days ago by Daniel J. Price, Rev.
4.0 out of 5 stars
this appears to be a good addition to the dvd
you have to have the dvd to use this book - it is a good supplement to the video by Wright.
Published 28 days ago by the observer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing and transformational
NT Wright has me thinking from a whole new perspective about life here on earth. The more I process and reflect on this study, the more my thoughts and views mature regarding... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Christina Marsh
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Surprised by Hope
I thought I had ordered the book "Surprised by Hope." I received the participant's guide instead. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dawn M Staves
3.0 out of 5 stars
book for class
This book was for a class but it was difficult to read. I think the author has unique ideas on this subject
Published 4 months ago by Diane Lewis
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected
From the cover I expected this was Wright's book. It was not clear that this is only a participant's guide.
Published 4 months ago by phil waite
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as expected
When I originally ordered this, I thought it was the original book...nothing was stated about it being the participant's guide. Read more
Published 5 months ago by dianef
1.0 out of 5 stars
Careful
This is NOT the actual book. It is a study guide. It has the exact same cover as the actual book so you wouldn't know it by the cover. Read more
Published 6 months ago by unclear
1.0 out of 5 stars
Surprised by...how horrible this book was? Yes, yes I was!
This is very possibly the worst book I have read in the past 5 years...or perhaps my entire life. With fancy language and cleverly beating around the bush, Wright manages to say... Read more
Published 8 months ago by agowen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hope for the Present
This is a great book! Wright makes a convincing case for the Kingdom of God to already be partially in place on this earth and ruled over by Jesus the Christ starting with the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by D. Brown
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