Book of the Year (This One, and Next?)

No question, the book of the year for me in 2008 was N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. There's that word again - Hope! I plan on reading that one again in 2009, but it looks like that won't be my only Wright reading next year.

Over on Euangelion, Michael Bird has a post about his interaction with Wright's Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision, due to be published in the UK in February and the US in July. Apparently the book is written primarily as a response to those who have been critical of Wright's view of justification, particularly John Piper through his own The Future of Justification. Read more about it here.

If nothing else--that's a figure of speech. I think there will be plenty 'else'--it looks like there's some rich reading ahead of us next year.