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A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent years, more and more Christians have come to appreciate the Bible’s teaching that the ultimate blessed hope for the believer is not an otherworldly heaven; instead, it is full-bodied participation in a new heaven and a new earth brought into fullness through the coming of God’s kingdom. Drawing on the full sweep of the biblical narrative, J. Richard Middleton unpacks key Old Testament...

its dualistic categories). This, of course, does not mean that we should not worship God. Rather, what we need is a redefinition of “worship.” First of all, we should not reduce human worship of God to verbal, emotionally charged expressions of praise (which is what we usually mean by the term). Rather, our worship consists in all that we do.5 This is well illustrated in Romans 12:1–2, where Paul borrows language of sacrifice and liturgy from Israel’s temple cult in order to describe full-orbed bodily
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