Unlike the earlier book, God’s Homecoming answers with a sweeping, if necessarily whistle-stop, biblical theology. “The Bible speaks with one voice of God coming to live with humans. Of God coming to be at home with us humans” (emphasis original). These pages are saturated with quotations of scripture, and particularly the Old Testament, something that those familiar with the styles of both Tom and his alter ego N. T. Wright will recognise and appreciate. Readers are borne along on the currents of prophecy and promise, gathering steam as the story of Israel’s God coming to dwell with his people rolls toward a climactic fulfilment.
The book’s primary thesis is that this fulfilment has now taken place in the “coming home” of God in Jesus, the human face of God, and the Holy Spirit, the pledge of the world’s suffusion with divine presence. The Kingdom does not merely wait for a future return of Christ, but has already been powerfully inaugurated.
Thus, the arrival of God on earth and not the soul’s arrival in heaven is central; living with God in a renewed creation…
“The point of Christianity is not that we should go to heaven. The point of Christianity is that heaven should come to us.”
— Tom Wright (@profntwright) February 15, 2026
-N.T. Wright, God’s Homecominghttps://t.co/9nO2h4VBHq
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