Hope against hope : Christian eschatology at the turn of the millennium /

The start of the twenty-first century evokes fresh concern for what the future holds. Will it bring an end to suffering and evil? Can we look for a new heaven and earth? Will judgment be cosmic or personal? Hope against Hope revisits these and other questions central to Christian eschatology and pro...

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Main Author: Bauckham, Richard
Other Authors: Hart, Trevor A
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., 1999
Grand Rapids, Mich. : 1999
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505 0 0 |g 1  |t The Decline of Secular Hope  |g 1 --  |g 2.  |t The Hope of an Ending  |g 26 --  |g 3.  |t The Wager on Transcendence: in Search of an Ecology of Hope  |g 44 --  |g 4.  |t Ambiguous Vision: Hope, Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Unsayable  |g 72 --  |g 5.  |t Images of Hope  |g 109 --  |g 6.  |t Breaking the Spiral: the State We're in and the Possibility of Progress  |g 174 --  |t Epilogue: Hope as the Child of the Future  |g 211. 
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520 8 |a Integrating images from the Bible and Christian tradition with analysis of contemporary Western culture, Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart reinterpret the meaning of such eschatological themes as the antichrist, the last judgment, and the kingdom of God in terms that will benefit students and general readers alike 
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