Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.

WRIGHT, Nicholas Thomas [N.T.].

Item Number: 115079

New York: HarperOne, 2008.

First edition of the award-winning author’s popular work on the Scriptural emphasis of resurrection as the foremost hope of the Christian community. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by N.T. Wright on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Ilona Wellmann.

One of the world's foremost biblical scholars, Nicholas Thomas Wright has written dozens books about theology and Christian life and the relationship between them. Here, Wright provides a magisterial defense for a literal Resurrection of Jesus and shows how this became the cornerstone for the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people. "A powerful account... In this masterful work Christian hope is defended, explicated, and proclaimed with wit, wisdom, intellect, and grace" (Willimon).