The Trinity Guide to Eschatology

by William J. La Due

Overview

La Due offers an evenhanded and accessible survey of the history of theological thought related to eschatology. He begins with the witness to the idea of eschatology in the Bible and then traces its early development from the early Church councils to the late nineteenth century. He devotes the next chapters to a consideration of various twentieth century New Testament theologians and systematic theologians. Included are Bultmann, Tillich, Rahner, Küng, Pannenberg, Moltmann, Hick, Cone, Ruether, and Elizabeth Johnson. In a day when the Left Behind series has focused everyone's attention on the end times, La Due's measured voice provides us with a wonderful guide to how we have come to this point.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826419187
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/18/2006
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

William J. La Due taught canon law at Catholic University, and is the author of The Trinity Guide to the Trinity and Jesus Among the Theologians. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Introductory Note1. The Biblical and Historical Background2. Bultmann, Cullmann, and Tillich: Classic Protestant Approaches to Eschatology in the Twentieth Century3. Rahner, Boros, and Ratzinger: Traditional Twentieth-Century Catholic Presentations of Eschatology4. Kung, Hellwig, and von Balthasar: Other Recent Complementary Visions of Eschatology5. John A. T. Robinson, Pannenberg, and Moltmann: Contemporary Protestant Directions in Eschatology6. Macquarrie, Suchocki, and Hick: Three Divergent Voices7. Further Thoughts on Eschatology: Orthodox, Liberationist, and Feminist TheologiansAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Students of theology, and other inquirers willing to make a serious time committment, will be grateful to the author for a methodical journey through the twentieth-century theological writers who have addressed the content of Christian hope and the sense of risk as to the outcome of human lives and history." Monika K. Hellwig, President of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities--Sanford Lakoff

"William La Due's study on eschatology is a useful overview of the diverse meanings of eschatology, both personal and collective, in the Biblical and historical traditions and in key modern theologians. La Due introduces readers not only to what eschatology has meant, but summons them to grapple with what it might mean in their own lives." Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carpenter Professor of Feminist theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.--Sanford Lakoff

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