The End of the World - NT Wright
The Washington Post’s website has a section called “On Faith.” They posed the following question: “Do you believe the world will come to an end? If so, where, when and what will it look like?” They capture the response from a broad range of people.
I was interested by NT Wright’s quote:
Read the Book; You’ll Know How it Ends
“The idea that to get salvation you need to go to heaven — rather than that salvation is a gift which comes from heaven to embrace earth — results in misreadings of key texts.”
I cut my teeth on Kingdom theology with some mp3’s of his found here (scroll down to Wright Audio/Video.) I would listen to them during my marathon training runs. Until then, Kingdom was mostly a future thing, consistent with my evangelical eschatology. And even though I read things like Ladd’s stuff on “inaugurated eschatology” (or is it “realized eschatology?”), it was Wright’s stuff that helped me think about a “now” and “present” aspect of kingdom.
Dallas Willard’s stuff on Kingdom is great in The Divine Conspiracy. I’ve already been mentioning two other books that speak of Kingdom, Guder’s Missional Church and The Shaping of Things to Come, by Frost and Hirsch.
