N.T. Wright on Heaven
There’s a series of very interesting videos of an interview with N. T. Wright over on YouTube. N. T. Wright is a problematic figure for me – sometimes he seems like the wise, believing public intellectual I’ve always longed for, and sometimes he seems to dwell too much in abstractions, or miss what I feel to be the actual, important point. On top of that, he can seem condescending to me. There will probably never be a human figure I can simply put all my trust in to help me understand things. Oh well.
My initial gut reaction to this heaven video was one of frustration – why argue about the nature of eternity, or “what’s going to happen” at the end times or when we die, if eternity is beyond our present ability to understand? However, I feel like it wouldn’t be fair to leave it at that, as the video doesn’t go into details as to why Wright feels any of this is important. So I’ve ordered Surprised by Hope to find out. Hopefully, my initial gut reaction will prove to have been premature.
I’ll let you know how it goes.