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Dwight Moody, Heaven, and the Resurrection of the Body

June 14th, 2012 | 3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

N.T. Wright's works have had many good effects.  Inspiring eager readers to police people's use of heaven is not one of them.  "Heaven" in much of evangelical discourse functions as shorthand for a whole nexus of ideas that are, well, pretty Biblical and not nearly as opposed to the body as Wright made it seem.  The difference is one of emphasis, which is important but not everything. 

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.