Theology and Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium

Brings together students of Scripture, the history of Christianity, and various contemporary theologies so that readers can consider and debate the ways diverse and often conflicting eschatological narratives, images and beliefs might bear on the new millennium. Editorial Introduction.

Visionary Eschatology: Piers Plowman: David Aers.

Nirvana as the Last Thing? The Iconic End of the Narrative Imagination: Paul J. Griffiths.

"Where Theologians Fear to Tread": Amy Plantinga Pauw.

The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation, and God: Sarah Coakley.

A Messiah for the Third Millennium: David F. Ford.

The Final Reconciliation: Reflections on a Social Dimension of the Eschatological Transition: Miroslav Volf.

"Why Do You Stand Looking Up Toward Heaven?" New Testament Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium: Richard B. Hays.

Index.

James J. Buckley received his doctorate from the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He has recently become Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola College, USA.
L. Gregory Jones is Dean of the Divinity School and Professor of Theology at Duke University, USA. Re-readings of medieval millenarian movements, competing modern and post-modern utopias and futurologies as well as ideologies of despair and violence - all of these have a claim on modern theology's eschatology, but in different and competing ways.

Our goal of this volume is to bring together students of Scripture, the history of Christianity, and various contemporary theologies so that readers can consider and debate the ways diverse and often conflicting eschatological narratives, images and beliefs might bear on the new millennium. It is also intended to inspire debate amongst readers about how these diverse uses of eschatology can make the millennium a parable of more significant, and holy, endings.

About the series

Born out of the journal Modern Theology, the Directions in Modern Theology book series provides issues focussed on important theological topics and texts in current debate within that discipline, whilst looking at broader contemporary topics from a theological perspective. It analyses notions and thinkers, as well as examining a wide spectrum of 'modern' theological eras: from late medieval through to the Enlightenment and up until the present 'post-modern' movements. Attracting distinguished theologians from a world-wide base, the book series develops what is a unique forum for international debate on theological concerns.