{"id":321,"date":"2020-11-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-11-07T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:10:12","slug":"hope-for-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/07\/hope-for-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>N.T. Wright: &#8220;The personal hope for resurrection is located within the larger hope for the renewal of all creation, for God&#8217;s new heavens and new earth. Take away the bodily resurrection, however, and what are you left with? The development of private spirituality, leading to a disembodied life after death: the denial of the goodness of creation, your own body included.&#8221; (p 126, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3\/28\/06<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I received from Amazon some other N.T. Wright books, having to do with following Christ. He said in The Meaning of Jesus, &#8220;If what I have said about Jesus is on the right lines, then all sorts of things follow for the question of what Christian living consists of. A good many of these I have explored elsewhere in another genre.&#8221;&nbsp; I ordered a few of the books he refers to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.T. Wright: &#8220;The personal hope for resurrection is located within the larger hope for the renewal of all creation, for God&#8217;s new heavens and new earth. Take away the bodily resurrection, however, and what are<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/07\/hope-for-resurrection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}