The end of the world and the ends of God : science and theology on eschatology / edited by John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker.

Contributor(s): Polkinghorne, J. C, 1930- | Welker, Michael, 1947-Series: Theology for the twenty-first centuryPublication details: Harrisburg, Pa. : Trinity Press International, 2000Description: ix, 309 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 1563383128 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Eschatology | Religion and scienceDDC classification: 236 LOC classification: BT882 | .P65 2000
Contents:
Introduction, Science and theology on the end of the world and the ends of God / John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker -- Introduction, Eschatology and the sciences / John Polkinghorne -- Scientific accounts of ultimate catastrophes in our life-bearing universe / William R. Stoeger -- Eschatology : some questions and some insights from science / John Polkinghorne -- Lord of time : brain theory and eschatology / Detlef Linke -- Subjective and objective hope : propositional and attitudinal aspects of eschatology / Fraser Watts -- Introduction, Cultural perspectives on eschatology / Larry D. Bouchard and William Schweiker -- Cultural cosmology and the impact of the natural sciences on philosophy and culture / William R. Stoeger -- Ends of man and the future of God / Janet Martin Soskice -- Contigent futures : imagining the ethics of cosmology / Larry D. Bouchard -- Church as a cultural space : eschatology and ecclesiology / Christoph Schwöbel -- Time as a moral space : moral cosmologies, creation, and last judgment / William Schweiker -- Introduction, Reading the Bible with "the end" in view / Donald H. Juel and Patrick D. Miller -- Faith at the nullpunkt / Walter Brueggemann -- Judgment and joy / Patrick D. Miller -- Christian hope and the denial of death : encountering New Testament eschatology / Donald H. Juel -- Hope and creation / Hans Weder.
Introduction, Realistic eschatology / Michael Welker -- Our reasons for hope / Gerhard Sauter -- Eschatology without a future? / Kathryn Tanner -- Is there life after death? / Jürgen Moltmann -- Enter into joy! : sin, death, and the life of the world to come / Miroslav Volf -- Resurrection and eternal life : the canonic memory of the resurrected Christ, his reality, and his glory / Michael Welker -- Appendix, Metaphor and reality / Hans Weder.
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Book Book Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven Main Library BT 882 END 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35678000866028

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, Science and theology on the end of the world and the ends of God / John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker -- Introduction, Eschatology and the sciences / John Polkinghorne -- Scientific accounts of ultimate catastrophes in our life-bearing universe / William R. Stoeger -- Eschatology : some questions and some insights from science / John Polkinghorne -- Lord of time : brain theory and eschatology / Detlef Linke -- Subjective and objective hope : propositional and attitudinal aspects of eschatology / Fraser Watts -- Introduction, Cultural perspectives on eschatology / Larry D. Bouchard and William Schweiker -- Cultural cosmology and the impact of the natural sciences on philosophy and culture / William R. Stoeger -- Ends of man and the future of God / Janet Martin Soskice -- Contigent futures : imagining the ethics of cosmology / Larry D. Bouchard -- Church as a cultural space : eschatology and ecclesiology / Christoph Schwöbel -- Time as a moral space : moral cosmologies, creation, and last judgment / William Schweiker -- Introduction, Reading the Bible with "the end" in view / Donald H. Juel and Patrick D. Miller -- Faith at the nullpunkt / Walter Brueggemann -- Judgment and joy / Patrick D. Miller -- Christian hope and the denial of death : encountering New Testament eschatology / Donald H. Juel -- Hope and creation / Hans Weder.

Introduction, Realistic eschatology / Michael Welker -- Our reasons for hope / Gerhard Sauter -- Eschatology without a future? / Kathryn Tanner -- Is there life after death? / Jürgen Moltmann -- Enter into joy! : sin, death, and the life of the world to come / Miroslav Volf -- Resurrection and eternal life : the canonic memory of the resurrected Christ, his reality, and his glory / Michael Welker -- Appendix, Metaphor and reality / Hans Weder.