Tom Wright - Heaven is Not the End of the World (N38)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
New Testament scholar extraordinaire, Tom Wright (how does he write so many books?!) is back on the show. This time Tom's helping us get our heads round the connection between academics and the local church and what exactly our Christian hope is (we might go to heaven when we die, but we're certainly not going to stay there!).
“The whole notion of the Kingdom of God is not about God being king over this individual, that individual, whatever. It’s about God becoming king in a fresh way over the whole creation.” - Tom Wright
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Tom Wright. I'm Professor of New Testament and early Christianity in the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and you're listening to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. My name is Tim Nash and I am not with Dave Ward. That's right. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm heading off to see Tom Wright, one of the most celebrated and influential evangelical scholars |
| 0:32.6 | of our generation. This should be Dave Ward's second month on Nomad podcast. And where is he? |
| 0:38.3 | He's in hospital. |
| 0:39.6 | That's right. |
| 0:40.2 | Our expert farrier has been kicked by a horse on the knee and is in A&E. |
| 0:45.8 | So he is going to miss the interview with Tom Wright. |
| 0:48.7 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:49.6 | I'd be absolutely gutted. |
| 0:51.0 | So I'm heading off to see Tom Wright to talk about care for creation, about his transition |
| 0:57.0 | back into academia and about his new book, Simply Jesus. |
| 1:01.0 | Then I'm going to go to the hospital where hopefully Dave has been patched up. |
| 1:05.0 | He will then listen to the interview and then we'll record some reflections. |
| 1:08.0 | So stay with us because we're about to chat with Tom Wright. |
| 1:24.2 | The last time we spoke, you were Bishop of Durham, and as you've just mentioned, you're now based at the University of St Andrews. How have you found that transition? |
| 1:33.2 | It's been wonderful. There are lots and lots of things I miss about Durham itself, particularly the people, to be honest. |
| 1:38.2 | It was a wonderful privilege to spend seven years working with the people of the north-east of England. |
| 1:44.3 | And I've got lots of very good memories. But apart from Easter, which I found very difficult this year, my father had just died, and normally at Easter I would be doing all the big stuff in the cathedral, and instead I was |
| 1:49.2 | in someone else's church just being an ordinary bloke in the congregation. That was very odd. But apart |
| 1:53.7 | from that, I have found really a wonderful confirmation of this kind of new move of vocation, that I haven't |
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