TY - BOOK AU - Sarot,Marcel AU - Fergusson,David ED - Society for the Study of Theology. TI - The future as God's gift: explorations in Christian eschatology T2 - T & T Clark academic paperbacks SN - 9780567379696 AV - BT821.3 .S63 2000eb U1 - 236 22 PY - 2000/// CY - Edinburgh PB - T & T Clark KW - Eschatology KW - Congresses KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Theology KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Eschatologie KW - gtt KW - Electronic books KW - Conference papers and proceedings N1 - Academic; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Signs of the times: towards a theology for the year 2000 as a grammar of grace, truth and eschatology in contexts of so-called postmodernity; Anthony C. Thiselton --; Shape of time; Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart --; Imagining the future; Garrett Green --; Future of creation: ecology and eschatology; Peter Scott --; Practice of hope: the Messianic Movement of the people who practice hope in Asia; Kim Yong-Bock --; Is the world coming to an end or has its future already begun? Christian eschatology, modern utopianism and exterminism; Jürgen Moltmann --; Dogmatic theses on eschatology; Colin Gunton --; Living with eschatological hope; Harriet A. Harris --; Eschatology as a challenge for theology; Daniel W. Hardy --; Eschatology and time: reversal of the time direction?; Luco J. Van den Brom --; Final crucible: last judgement and the dead-end of sin; Niels Henrik Gregersen; Eschatology with a vengeance: hell as the greatest conceivable evil; Wilko van Holten --; John Zizioulas on the eschatology of the person; Douglas Knight --; Eucharist, eschatology and ethics; Douglas Farrow --; Last things first? The century of eschatology in retrospect; Christoph Schwöbel; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) N2 - International theologians consider the importance of Christian eschatology - both to the life, authority and hope of the church in the world, and to contemporary life and thought generally. Issues addressed include the understanding of time, the nature of eschatological imagery, the status of apocalyptic and millenarian language, and the political and ecological context of modern eschatology ER -