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Book SynopsisFrom the rapid expansion of fundamentalist forms of Christianity, with their focus on the end times; to the proliferation of apocalyptic new religious movements; to the recent (and very public) debates about suicide, euthanasia, martyrdom, and paradise in Islam, interest in eschatology is once again dramatically on the rise. This expansive handbook offers thirty-nine chapters exploring the diverse terrain of eschatology's past, present, and future-providinginformative insights on heaven, hell, and everything in between. This volume will prove to be the primary resource for students, scholars, and others interested in questions of our ultimate existence.
Trade Reviewprovides an important, head-on, critical analysis of eschatology from biblical, historical, theological, philosophical and cultural disciplines and is relevant for practitioners of these perspectives. * Quaker Studies *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION BY JERRY L. WALLS; I. HISTORICAL ESCHATOLOGY; A. BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC ESCHATOLOGY; B. ESCHATOLOGY IN WORLD RELIGIONS; II. ESCHATOLOGY IN DISTINCT CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS AND THEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS; III. ISSUES IN ESCHATOLOGY; A. THEOLOGICAL ISSUES; B. PHILOSOPHICAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES; CONCLUSION
