| LAST THINGS January * March 1998 Volume 8 No. 1 |
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| LAST THINGS January * March 1998 Volume 8 No. 1 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
ARTICLES ON LAST THINGS
The End or the
Edge?...........................................................Catherine
Keller....................4
Apocalypse means ecstatic vision, not doom
Last Things: Ultimately God Will
Triumph................................Harold Dean
Trulear..............6
Eschatology offers hope for justice
In Our Beginning is Our
End...................................................William
Muehl......................8
Heaven is a source of hope about which human beings often feel
ambivalent
In the End,
Hope....................................................................Marguerite
Shuster.............10
The emphasis on last things has fundamentally moral purpose
Retrieving a Two-Stage
Eschatology.........................................William R.
Burrows............12
Purgatory, the fate of the souls of the dead and the nature of
eternal life
Eschatology and
Politics.........................................................Robert
T. Cornelison..........14
For Jürgen Moltmann, Christian theology is primarily
eschatological
Nourishing Hope Through
Apocalyptic Awareness......................Morgaret Dorgan,
D.C.M....16
Millennial consciousness lifts us and energizes us
The Eastern Tradition on Last
Things........................................Dale T.
Irvin.......................17
In the Orthodox tradition the glory of divine salvation eclipses
the doctrine of hell
The Chernobyl Prophecy in Russian
Apocalyptic Eschatology.....Michael J. Christensen......18
For Russian philosopher, Berdyaev, apocalyptic eschatology is a
source of creative power
God Wants All People to be
Saved............................................Robert B.
Birge................20
Karl Rahner's message is that God reaches out to every human
being
Eschatology: My Take on Last
Things........................................Henry H.
Mitchell.............22
Judgment Day offers the hope of justice to the oppressed
The Computer of
Babel..............................................................Arthur
Waskow...............23
The Tower of Babel offers insights into the Y2K crisis
Because He Came
Down..........................................................Matthew
R. Henry............24
When the Kingdom of God crashed into the present
The Content of Our
Hope...........................................................Ralph
Del Colle...............26
Eschatological hope considered corporately and individually
End Times and World
Views......................................................Marjory
Zoet Bankson.....28
What would you do on the last day of the world?
Last Things and the Resurrection
of the Dead..............................Jacob
Neusner...............29
Monotheism requires the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead
QUOTATIONS ON LAST THINGS
In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures [31]
Poets and Writers [32]
Theologians, Scholars and Saints [33]
BOOKS ON LAST THINGS
The Book of Revelation: Justice
and Judgment by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza [34]
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix
of Christianity by John Collins [34]
The New Testament and the People of God by N.T. Wright [35]
IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON LAST THINGS
Preaching About Heaven From
Ephesians.......................................Christopher
Morse.................36
The Revelation: Christ, First and
Last..............................................Judith Hoch
Wray..................38
The Wrath of the Lamb: A Case of Cognitive
Dissonance..................Frank D. Macchia..................40
Leader's Guide for Adult
Education.................................................Ginger
Grab and
........................................................................................................Judith
Hoch Wray..............43
Preaching the
Lectionary...............................................................Judith
Hoch Wray...................46
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