Essential Eschatology: Our Present and Future Hope
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Overview
The study of end times often gets bogged down in minutiae that rarely affects daily life. Or we find ourselves passively waiting for God’s future. Avoiding both of these traps, Essential Eschatology gets to the heart of the matter by examining how the Christian hope and practice of resurrection affects Christian mission and everyday life. Author John Phelan notes, “Eschatology is not about the end only but the beginning and middle of faith and life as well. Christianity…is eschatological to its core.”
Raised with Christ, Jesus’ followers are called to practice resurrection, which reshapes relationships with our families, our neighbors and the world at large. “All that is anticipated in the new heavens and the new earth is to be lived out in the Christian community―a community that has already died and been raised with Christ.” This creates within the world a unique community hope.
Essential Eschatology explores Christian hope in relation to:In Essential Eschatology professors, students and pastors will find a sure guide in a frequently misunderstood and often confusing theological landscape. With the thoroughly biblical perspective found in this book, we discover the future spilling into the present.
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- Weaves together theology, church history and biblical studies
- Offers a sure guide in a frequently misunderstood and often confusing theological landscape
- Examines how the Christian hope and practice of resurrection shapes Christian mission and daily life
- Hope and Promise: An Overview and Invitation
- Hope and Accommodation
- Hope for Resurrection
- Hope for Judgment
- Hope for the Kingdom of God
- Hope for Jesus? Return
- Hope in the Midst of Empire
- Hope for the Millennium
- Hope for Israel
- Hope for the Church
Where does a pastor or teacher turn when those they serve get their eschatology from popular authors who delight in the demise of those who do not share their theology or those authors who joyfully predict the destruction of the planet? Here is the book for which we have been waiting. Dr. Phelan takes seriously biblical authority. This book neither dismisses nor overly literalizes the apocalyptic portions of the Bible. The message is one of hope grounded in the Bible. He discusses the implications for discipleship, for the church and even for contemporary politics.
—Glenn R. Palmberg, president emeritus, The Evangelical Covenant Church
If eschatology is a casualty of scholarly and popular culture, Essential Eschatology artfully resurrects its place in the Christian faith. Phelan weaves together theology, church history and biblical studies, producing a remarkably interdisciplinary treatment of the doctrine of eschatology. I put Phelan’s book on my shelf next to N. T. Wright and Scot McKnight who also write accessible biblical theology for the whole church!
Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom, associate professor of theology and ethics, North Park Theological Seminary
Jay Phelan shows his readers that eschatology (the doctrine of the ‘last things’) is not speculative but practical, and not only about the future but also--in fact, especially--about the present. His plea for the church to put kingdom values into practice now, as we await God’s new heavens and new earth, is both provocative and persuasive, at once orthodox and radical.
Michael J. Gorman, Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology, St. Mary’s Seminary University, Baltimore
- Title: Essential Eschatology: Our Present and Future Hope
- Author: John E. Phelan Jr.
- Publisher: IVP USA
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780830840250, 0830840257
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830864652
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-15T18:30:31Z
John E. Phelan Jr. is senior professor of theological studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He formerly served as dean and president of the seminary. Phelan is also the author of several books, including All God?s People and The Church in the Postmodern World.