{"id":145349,"date":"2026-05-22T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145349"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:19:52","slug":"church-times-j-tyler-brown-reviews-tom-wrights-new-book-gods-homecoming-the-forgotten-promise-of-future-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145349","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) J. Tyler Brown\u00a0reviews Tom Wright&#8217;s new book &#8220;God\u2019s Homecoming: The forgotten promise of future renewal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unlike the earlier book,&nbsp;<em>God\u2019s Homecoming<\/em>&nbsp;answers with a sweeping, if necessarily whistle-stop, biblical theology. \u201c<em>The Bible speaks with one voice of God coming to live with humans<\/em>. Of God coming to&nbsp;<em>be at home<\/em>&nbsp;with us humans\u201d (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\u2019s God coming to dwell with his people rolls toward a climactic fulfilment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book\u2019s primary thesis is that this fulfilment has now taken place in the \u201ccoming home\u201d of God in Jesus, the human face of God, and the Holy Spirit, the pledge of the world\u2019s suffusion with divine presence. The Kingdom does not merely wait for a future return of Christ, but has already been powerfully inaugurated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the arrival of God on earth and not the soul\u2019s arrival in heaven is central; living with God in a renewed creation&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/22-may\/books-arts\/book-reviews\/book-review-god-s-homecoming-the-forgotten-promise-of-future-renewal-by-tom-wright\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe point of Christianity is not that we should go to heaven. The point of Christianity is that heaven should come to us.\u201d<br>-N.T. Wright, God\u2019s Homecoming<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9nO2h4VBHq\">https:\/\/t.co\/9nO2h4VBHq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Wright (@profntwright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/profntwright\/status\/2023140961795166696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the earlier book,&nbsp;God\u2019s Homecoming&nbsp;answers with a sweeping, if necessarily whistle-stop, biblical theology. \u201cThe Bible speaks with one voice of God coming to live with humans. Of God coming to&nbsp;be at home&nbsp;with us humans\u201d (emphasis original). These pages are saturated<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145349\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,162,178,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christology","category-eschatology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145352,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145349\/revisions\/145352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}