{"id":6778,"date":"2010-03-16T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/16\/after-you-believe-4\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:00:57","slug":"after-you-believe-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/16\/after-you-believe-4\/","title":{"rendered":"After You Believe 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Tom Wright\u2019s newest book is about virtue ethics, about how we move from where we are through habituation so we can arrive at the goal. This is all found in\u00a0After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters<\/a>\"\"
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A development in this book that is not found at the same level is how he defines the goal. Readers of Wright know he has worked hard to eradicate the idea that we get saved so we can go to heaven when we die, and that heaven is a place for souls and spirits. Readers also know that his Jesus books pushed hard for an end of exile theme, and at the same against the all too common reading of the apocalyptic ideas of Jesus: they were not about Jesus\u2019 return to earth as about his exaltation and vindication. Put this together and many of us have often wondered how Tom envisions what the kingdom will be like \u2014 and what our role will be in that future kingdom \u2014 and this book, and in particular chp 3, is about that theme.<\/div>\n
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What one term would you use for what we will do in the final kingdom? Do you think Tom\u2019s terms cover the span of what we are to do?<\/b><\/div>\n
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What will we be? Priests and rulers. The major shift I see in Tom\u2019s ideas in this book, and it is probably not so much a \u201cshift\u201d as the development of a theme he\u2019s been working on, is that our goal (our telos) is aimed at being God\u2019s priests and rulers in this world. Everything in our Christian life, then, has that as its aim.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\nTom constructs this idea biblically, ranging from Genesis 1:26-28, where \u201cHuman\u201d is given the mandate to govern. Then to Revelation 22 where we are priests who worship and reign, and there you get the big ideas: we are priests and rulers. Forget happiness; we are to rule. The glory of God, he argues, is our finally being image-bearers in such a way that we bring glory to God.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The means to this is holiness and prayer, both found in Romans 8. The themes of priests and rulers is found elsewhere in the NT, in texts like 1 Peter 2:1-10, 1 Cor 6:1-5, 4:7-8 and 2 Timothy 2:8-13 as well as Matthew 19:28-30.<\/div>\n
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This is the most complete eschatology I\u2019ve seen from Tom, and it puts a number of his other ideas into perspective.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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