10/19/14
Chris Breslin
Isaiah 60:15-22, Revelation 21:1-5
Related Quotes
“The end is where we start from.” –T.S. Eliot
“The sin-ruined creation of Genesis is restored in the sacrifice-renewed creation of Revelation.” –Eugene Peterson
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” -Lesslie Newbigin
“Cities are noisy with self-assertion, forgetful and defiant of God, battering and abusive to persons…Heaven surely, should get us as far away from that as possible. Haven’t we had enough of cities on earth? Don’t we deserve what we long for? Many people want to go to heaven the way they want to go to Florida –they want think the weather will be an improvement and the people decent. But the biblical heaven is not a nice environment far removed from the stress of hard city life. It is the invasion of the city by the City. We enter heaven not by escaping what we don’t like, but by the sanctification of the place in which God has placed us.” –Eugene Peterson
Further Reading
New Testament Theology: The Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Cambridge Companion of Christian Doctrine ed Colin Gunton
Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard Hays
When the Kings Come Marching In: Isaiah & the New Jerusalem by Richard Mouw
Reversed Thunder by Eugene Peterson
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright
