New Heavens, New Earth: The Biblical Picture of the Christian Hope

As I was grateful for the invitation to give the Drew Lecture on Immortality in 1993, and for the welcome and hospitality I enjoyed at Spurgeon’s College on that occasion, so I am grateful for the further hospitality of the Grove Biblical series for the chance to give the piece a wider circulation. It relates to the other work in which I am engaged in all sorts of ways, and will I hope serve to stimulate further thought and discussion, and indeed changes of policy and action, as the great sea-changes through which we are currently passing, in the church no less than in society at large, take their effect, and as, under God, new vistas of truth come to light. The subject of immortality, of the whole Christian future hope, and of belief in the reality denoted by my title, ‘New Heavens, New Earth,’ remains of huge importance.