'Life After Life After Death'

The Right Reverend N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, has recently begun a powerful and utterly captivating media campaign on behalf of his new book Surprised by Hope, in which he challenges conventional notions about death and the life after death for Christians: he teaches in fabulously lucid and comprehensible language the Anglican Catholic, and most especially, New Testament doctrine of the Intermediate State, Paradise, the Day of Judgement, the General Resurrection and the Life of the World to come - the New Creation of heaven and earth as one reality, the future world transfigured by divine grace. He especially challenges the common evangelical belief which holds Christians simply 'die and go to heaven.' The popular platonic and gnostic assertions that we cease to be physical and material in the World to Come and that we will not have physical bodies and lives in the Resurrection are marvellously toppled in favour of the biblical teaching of a future divinised, deified material creation, which will be in communion with God the Father, resplendent with the glory and power of the Holy Ghost and filled with the Resurrection Life of Jesus Christ. Bishop Wright, as he says, is concerned with 'life after life after death.' His traditional Anglican and Catholic catechesis on this subject has never been clearer or more needed. The following websites give an excellent overview of Bishop Wright's teaching, which is, in a word, brilliant!

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4351680: What Happens When You Die?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html: Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop

http://www.anglicantv.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/23/Interview-with-Bishop-NT-Wright: Anglican TV interview with the Bishop