Resurrection of the Son of God Part 18

During Lent I'm sharing a series of thoughts and summaries from reading N.T. Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God. They will be from the second half of the book dealing mostly with the New Testament Narratives...

In conclusion of this chapter, Hope in Person: Jesus as Messiah and Lord, Wright shows how early Christian answers to “worldview questions” are “resurrection-shaped.”  “Who are we?  Resurrection people: a people, that is, formed within the new world which began at Easter and which has embraced us, in the power of the Spirit, in baptism and faith.  Where are we?  In God’s good creation, which is to be restored; in bodies that will be redeemed, though at present they are prone to suffering and decay and will one day die.  What’s wrong?  The work is incomplete: the project begun at Easter (the defeat of sin and death) has not yet been finished. What’s the solution?  The full and final redemption of the creation, and ourselves with it; this will be accomplished through a fresh act of creative grace when Jesus reappears, and this in turn is anticipated in the present by the work of the Spirit.  What time is it?  In the overlap of the ages: the ‘age to come’, longed for by Israel, has already begun, but the ‘present age’ still continues.  This correlates, obviously, with the redefinition-from-within of resurrection itself which we have already explored.”  Chapter Twelve, Page 581