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Tom Wright\u2019s Surprised by Hope<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> keeps getting better and better for me. In chp 6 he sketches a view of the future that avoids the disastrous inability of evolution to deal with sin and the mistaken notion that we need to get out of this world to be what we were designed to be. What then does that future look like?
\n\u201cThe early Christians did not believe in progress.\u201d \u201cBut neither did they believe that the world was getting worse and worse\u201d (93). So, these two options, one found in the optimists among liberals (and esp now all over the TV with politicians) and the other among the pessimists among evangelicals (and firing so much of how many understand eschatology).
\nThree themes converge in Christian hope:
\n1. The goodness of creation (dualist mistake).
\n2. The nature of evil (evolution\u2019s mistake).
\n3. The plan of redemption \u2014 the Christian alternative to the above.
\nThese three stories converge in the Story of Jesus Christ who is Incarnate (#1), goes down into death all the way down (#2) and is raised from the dead (#s 1-3!).
\nSix themes in the NT are neither evolutionary\/myth of progress nor dualist:
\n1. Seedtime and harvest
\n2. Victorious battle
\n3. Citizens of heaven
\n4. God will be all in all
\n5. New birth
\n6. Marriage of heaven and earth<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"