『天』と『地』は二つで一つ

かなり長い間（主に）西洋キリスト教のイマジネーションを支配してきた二元化し、切り離された「天地観」に対し、ライトはその著作や講演の至るところで再考を促す。

キリスト者も（キリスト者ではなくても、そのような西洋キリスト教「天地観」の影響下にある人たちにも）、ライトは新鮮な（ライトの大好きな形容詞、"fresh"）捉え方、理解の仕方を提案する。

以下は長くなるが引用です。（ひとさまの引用の孫引きなので、小嶋自身はチェックできません。あしからず。）
Acts 1:9-10のコメンタリー（Acts For Everyone）のようです。

In the Bible, heaven and earth are the two halves of God’s created world. ... Talking about ‘heaven and earth’ is a way, in the Bible, of talking about the fact, as many people and many cultures have perceived it to be, that everything in our world (call it ‘earth’ for the sake of argument, though that can be confusing because that is also the name we give to our particular planet within our particular solar system, whereas ‘earth’ in the Bible really means the entire cosmos of space, time and matter) has another dimension, another sort of reality, that goes with it as well.

ちょっと（）の中の挿入ですが、こう言う風に私たちの住む惑星「地」球と、全被造物における物質的世界に区別して考えるのも興味深いです。

You could call this other reality, this other dimension, the ‘inner’ reality, if you like, thinking perhaps of a golf ball which has an outer reality (the hard, mottled surface) and an inner reality (the tightly-packed, springy interior). But you could just as easily think of earth as the ‘inner’ reality, the dense material of the world where we live at the moment, and ‘heaven’ as the outer reality, the ‘side’ of our reality that is open to all kinds of other things, to meanings and possibilities which our ‘inner’ reality, our busy little world of space, time and matter sometimes seem to exclude.

ここではゴルフボールと言う球体をイメージしながら、「中身」と「外殻」とで一つであるようなものが天と地なのだ、と説明しています。

If these illustrations don’t help, leave them to one side and concentrate on the reality. The reality is this: ‘heaven’ in the Bible is God’s space, and ‘earth’ is our space. ‘Heaven’isn’t just ‘the happy place where God’s people go when they die’, and it certainly isn’t our ‘home’ if by that you mean (as some Christians, sadly, have meant) that our eventual destiny is to leave ‘earth’ altogether and go to ‘heaven’ instead. God’s plan, as we see again and again in the Bible, is for ‘new heavens and new earth’, and for them to be joined together in that renewal once and for all. ‘Heaven’ may well be our temporary home, after this present life, but the whole new world, united and transformed, is our eventual destination.

これは今N.T.ライトFB読書会で読んでいる、Surprised By Hopeで繰り返し強調されているポイントです。

上記の引用が「使徒の働き1章9-10節の註解だとすると、このビデオも参考になるでしょう。