In the end, the beginning
Subtitle: the life of hope
By: Jürgen Moltmann ; translated by Margaret Kohl.
Edition: 1st Fortress Press ed.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Life cycle, Human -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Eschatology.
Description: Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the Antichrist--Armageddon--Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The promise of the child; title: Does the future belong to the young?; title: New beginnings in catastrophes : biblical catastrophe theology; title: Deliver us from evil : God's righteousness and justice and the rebirth of life; title: The spirituality of the wakeful senses; title: The living power of hope; title: Is there a life after death?; title: Mourning and consoling; title: The community of the living and the dead; title: What awaits us?; title: Eternal life.