Eschatology (Guides to Theology)
Overview
This short textbook, the latest volume in the Guides to Theology series, surveys key themes and aspects of Christian hope by tracing eschatological ideas as they have developed from Scripture throughout the history of theology.
John McDowell and Scott Kirkland present a series of lenses on understanding eschatological statements, or the content of Christian hope. They have structured their book thematically into five chapters—four exploring apocalyptic, existential, political, and christological themes, followed by an extensive annotated bibliography. Within each chapter, McDowell and Kirkland take a history-of-ideas approach, locating the various perspectives in their historical contexts. Concise and accessible, this book is ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in eschatology.
- Provides helpful introduction to eschatology
- Explores the history and development of eschatology
- Discusses the political implications of the various aspects of eschatology
- Apocalyptic
- Existential
- Political
- Christological
Top Highlights
“The kingdom of God is a ‘wholly new order, quite independent of all creaturely and even Christian development’” (Page 103)
“eternity bears the name Jesus Christ’; Jesus Christ is real, eschatological time” (Page 101)
“determines the shape of hope’s active expression in ‘our whole life.’” (Page 104)
“Barth stood at the edge of the collapse of liberal confidence in historical progress and called a halt, with a return to apocalyptic tropes of messianism and divine revelation. His work, then, stands at the root of a renewed contemporary interest in apocalypticism and political critique, which blurs the boundaries between the theological and the philosophical, the sacred and the secular.” (Page 27)
“no abstract and autonomous last things apart from and alongside Him [Jesus Christ], the last One’” (Page 101)
- Title: Eschatology (Guides to Theology)
- Authors: John McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland
- Series: Guides to Theology
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 151
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Eschatology
- ISBNs: 9780802864581, 0802864589
- Resource ID: LLS:ESCHTLGYEERDMANS
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-19T16:17:14Z
John C. McDowell is professor of theology and director of research at the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.
Scott A. Kirkland is a postdoctoral research associate at Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity, Melbourne.