The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology
Winner of Grawemeyer Award\ In this remarkable and timely work - in many ways the culmination of his systematic theology - world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann stands Christian eschatology on its head. Moltmann rejects the traditional approach, which focuses on the End, an apocalyptic finale, as a kind of Christian search for the "final solution." He centers instead on hope and God's promise of new creation for all things. "Christian eschatology," he says, "is the remembered hope of the...
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This final volume of Moltmann's systematics centers on hope, thus completing a trajectory begun some three decades ago in his Theology of Hope. Eshatology, Moltmann contends, is often thought to deal with the End, the last day, the last act--God has the final word. But Christian eschatology has nothing to do with the apocalypse, but is about new creation.
PrefaceAbbreviationsTranslator's NoteIThe Coming God: Eschatology Today11The Transposition of Eschatology into Time62The Transposition of Eschatology into Eternity133The Eschatology of the Coming God224The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism29IIEternal Life: Personal Eschatology471Loved Life and Death492The Immortality of the Soul or the Resurrection of the Body?583Is Death the Consequence of Sin or Life's Natural End?774Where are the Dead?965Death, Mourning and Consolation119IIIThe Kingdom of God: Historical Eschatology1291The Apocalypse of History1312Messianic Eschatology: 'The Thousand Years' Empire'1463Political Millenarianism: 'The Holy Empire'1594Political Millenarianism: 'The Redeemer Nation'1685Ecclesiastical Millenarianism: 'The Mother and Preceptress of the Nations'1786Epochal Millenarianism: The Birth of 'Modern Times' out of the Spirit of Messianic Hope1847Is Millenarian Eschatology Necessary?1928End-Times of Human History: Exterminism2029'The End of History': Post-historic Prophets21810Is Apocalyptic Eschatology Necessary?22611The Restoration of All Things235IVNew Heaven - New Earth: Cosmic Eschatology2571The Future of Creation - Sabbath and Shekinah2612The Annihilation of the World or its Consummation?2673The End of Time in the Eternity of God2794The End of Space in the Presence of God2965The Cosmic Temple: The Heavenly Jerusalem308VGlory: Divine Eschatology3211The Self-Glorification of God3242The Self-Realization of God3263Interactions between Divine and Human Activity3304The Fullness of God and the Feast of Eternal Joy336Notes341Index of Names385
