Grounded in Heaven: Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God (Biblia.com)

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Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth. Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future...

in his book The Zimzum of Love, and for some time he has advocated (in terms similar to Wright) a concern for how our hope is viewed.10 For Bell and others, justice and beauty are as significant as evangelism; for them, embodiment and earthly harmony or shalom mark the center of our future hope.11 Whether in the more academic arguments of Wright or the theological haiku of Bell, however, we see that the turn to the embodied, political, and earthly has tended to eclipse heaven. Getting underneath

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