Many believers imagine eternity as life somewhere far away from earth - a spiritual home beyond grief, pain, and death. We speak of loved ones being in a better place. We sing about flying away. We comfort one another with the promise of heaven.

And there is real comfort there.

But the story Scripture tells does not end with souls spending eternity in heaven. It ends with our bodies raised from the dead, creation set free from corruption, heaven descending, and God making His dwelling with humanity in our world renewed.

The Hope We Lost is an invitation to recover that fuller biblical vision.

Drawing from Scripture, the early church, and the historic creeds, this book traces how the church's imagination gradually narrowed - and how the resurrection hope at the heart of Christianity can be seen again. This is not a rejection of heaven, holiness, or being with Christ. It is the recovery of the whole promise: Christ risen, death defeated, evil judged, creation restored, and the life of the world to come.

This book offers a way home to the ancient hope in the creeds that Christians have confessed all along:

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.