Political Eschatology

Sean J. McGrath

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781666798371
• eBook ISBN: 9781666798388
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable. Nothing disturbs us more deeply than incalculable time, unpredictable time--the time of the advent of the unpredictably new.In a series of interventions into contemporary political crises, McGrath reactualizes the early Christian sense of eschatology as the experience of a time that runs out rather than moves forward. In contemporary politics, economy, ecology, and technology, much that was familiar for most of the twentieth century--the intra-generational transmission of religious values, progressive economic growth, a stable global climate, and predictable movements of peoples and nonhuman species across the planet--is ending calamitously. Endtime, however, is not only the time of endings; it is also the time of unforeseeable beginnings.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Endtime
• Chapter Two: The Eschatological Thought
• Chapter Three: Can the Earth Be Sacred Again?32
• Chapter Four: The End of History
• Chapter Five: The Theology of Consumerism
• Chapter Six: The Time of Pandemic
• Chapter Seven: Hospitality at the End
• Works Cited