Rupert’s Blog

Well that was the title of an email I got this week. My favourite Bishop in the Anglican church NOT going to heaven. I assumed it was some nutter who thought that God would only let the doctrinally pure into the pearly gates, and that somehow NT Wright’s theology had been found wanting in some way…

But no, apparently NT Wright himself is admitting that he won’t be going to heaven. Is he admitting that he is woolly liberal after all? Perhaps admitting that he doesn’t take the atonement seriously? Or perhaps that Bishops themselves are somehow barred?

No, even more shockingly than that, the Bish says that no Christians will go to heaven and perhaps surprisingly to some of our evangelical brethren that the Bible doesn’t ever promise that we will!!! In fact he says the Bible says that Jesus is coming here to earth, to “join together the heavens and the earth, in an act of new creation”.

Perhaps we have the beginning here of a worldly spirituality?

See the article on N.T. Wright’s new book, Hope, where he expresses these views.

Tags: NT Wright, Surprised by Hope, Heaven, Christians