Hello and welcome to another episode of Ask Ante Right Anything, the program where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm joined by...

My Tom Wright from Wickliff Hall in Oxford. Now Tom, I got paid a very good visit from the

book fairy. The book fairy came and visited me. I got a copy of my own book, what Christians

ought to believe. That was great from the publisher. But I also got something special. The latest

Tom Wright book, God's Homecoming. Good, good. Well done. British edition. And let me say the, it was. I've got the American edition here. You've got it there. Well, there we go for the camera. And I can say it was not overhyped. If anything, I think it was underhyped. Okay, there was a little bit of hype. I think I may have contributed to that hype, but it was

hypeworthy, I have to tell you. This is a great successor to your volume surprised by hope.

I mean, the one thing I noticed, Tom, it's, I might say it's a systematic theology, but it's almost like a biblical theology where you're talking constantly about the Old and the New Testament, how they work together.

But then you talk about a lot of other stuff as well, like the Christian tradition, about mission, evangelism, baptism of the sacrament.

So this is probably the most, I think,

integrated book you've ever written in sense that brings a lot of different threads. Like,

I know you've done books like simply Christian and others where you, you know, you kind of

summarize elements of the Christian life and all those those sorts of things that you do

to introduce people to Christianity. But this is a kind of an inter-right biblical theology that

I've really, I've only just started reading it, but I've really enjoyed it. And I think people

who like surprised by hope will definitely like that one. Was that your intention with the book, Tom?

Well, I mean, yes, it sort of grew gradually. It was one of those things that was sort of making

its way, really over the last decade. I had hoped to have finished it several years ago,

but then the pandemic got in the way, and then I got sick, and I had my knee

operation one thing and another, so it all got delayed, and it's a great relief to have it out at

last. But yet, I was just leafing through it because I've been doing some book launches for it

in America, and I'm doing one actually in Oxford this evening as well, and thinking exactly

what you said, this is more of a total biblical theology

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