Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend - eBook
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Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend - eBook  -     Edited By: Ted Grimsrud, Michael Hardin

Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend - eBook

Cascade Books / 2011 / ePub

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Title: Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend - eBook
Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: Cascade Books
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781621890829
ISBN-13: 9781621890829
Stock No: WW108064EB

Publisher's Description

Do "eschatology" and "peace" go together? Is eschatology mostly about retribution and fear--or compassion and hope? Compassionate Eschatology brings together a group of international scholars representing a wide range of Christian traditions to address these questions. Together they make the case that Christianity's teaching about the "end times" should and can center on Jesus's message of peace and reconciliation. Offering a peace-oriented reading of the Book of Revelation and other biblical materials relevant to Christian eschatology, this book breaks new ground in its consistent message that compassion not retribution stands at the heart of the doctrine of the last things. Besides its creative treatment of biblical materials, Compassionate Eschatology also makes a distinctive contribution in how several essays engage the thought of Rene Girard and his mimetic theory. Girard's project is shown to reinforce the biblical message of eschatological peace.

Author Bio

Ted Grimsrud is Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. His most recent books include A Pacifist Way of Knowing (co-editor, 2010), Theology as If Jesus Matters (2009), and Embodying the Way of Jesus (2007). Michael Hardin is Executive Director of Preaching Peace, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Jesus Driven Life (2010), and co-editor of Peace Be With You (2010) and Stricken by God? (2007).

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