N.T. Wright on Heaven 1

Bishop Tom Wright offers guidance on how to deal pastorally with questions about heaven in a discussion with Dr. Tod Bolsinger. This is a Q & A session at the Annual Pastors' Retreat for Los Ranchos Presbytery held at Serra Retreat Center in Malibu, CA. Bishop N.T. Wright is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. [Video produced by Tom Dykhuizen.]

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[Guntis77]

Excellent presentation. N.T. Wright is one of the few theologians who promotes true biblical view of heaven. We Christians have seen world through Platonic (dualistic) world view glasses so that we read in Platonic world view in any biblical message about the heaven. Time to re-discover biblical world view.

[Galatians4v28]

amen

[djyinkey]

"Heaven is important, but it's not the end of the world."

[flizzleFlopper]

I don't disagree with Wright, and I'm actually a very big fan of his, but I'm not sure I get the distinction he's making. Most Christians I know agree with when you die, you go to be with Christ, but will be resurrected in the eschaton. And that there an even grander theme being played out that's bigger than the individual. Maybe I"m misunderstanding something, but this doesn't seem that controversial to me.

[guerrillaroach]

What a load of dribble. Way to explain a 'made up' idea. He made good sense of your bronze age books references to an afterlife. Yet another eloquent idiot for the masses spreading ever more refined versions of the 'same old lie'. Don't question. Just believe! Blindly believe. Then when you die you'll be rewarded with an eternity loving god. Yay. You can have it! Amen (so let it be).

[999Atwood]

It's not a new idea, it's a total rip off of Jehovah's Witness doctrine.

[protosswannabe]

Wow those people in the audience look so entranced:) Can't blame 'em either....Tom Wright's an excellent speaker.