The Supper of the Lamb - 4

I would definitely reccommend reading this book alongside Tom Wright's 'Surprised by Hope' . Wright certainly gives some more flesh and meat to what is already a very solid theology, setting this orthodox view in the context of other prevailing world and Christians views. Here is another great quote...

''Why do we marry, why take friends or lovers, why give ourselves to music, painting chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half of the earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become, for all it rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself - and it our glory to see it so and thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not consume the world and forget it, but to taste it goodness and hunger to make it great.''

And a Tom Wright quotes which expresses the same idea, in a different sort of way...

''We might even suggest, as part of the Christ aesthetic, that the world is beautiful, not because is hauntingly reminds us of its Creator, but because it is pointing forwards: it is designed to filled, flooded, drenched in God; as a chalice is beautiful not least because we know what it is designed to contain, or as a violin is beautiful not least because we know what music it is capable.'''