The Christian Century

Christians don’t go to heaven when we die—that’s the dramatic way to summarize N. T. Wright’s book. The Christian hope is that our bodies will be raised on a transformed Earth when Christ returns, not that our souls will be freed of our bodies so that they can get to heaven.

N. T. Wright is a distinguished New Testament scholar and (sometimes under the more approachable name of “Tom Wright”) author of short introductions to New Testament texts and widely read popular defenses of Christianity. A British evangelical and a gifted and prolific writer, he is probably the closest living equivalent to C. S. Lewis. He also has a day job as the Anglican bishop of Durham.