Christian eschatology and the physical universe /
Does matter matter? The scientific picture of the end of the physical Universe has undergone dramatic changes since the turn of the 21st century, with its future characterized by accelerated expansion and futility. Yet Christian theology has been largely silent on this, despite the interest in escha...
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London ; New York :
T & T Clark,
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Table of Contents:
- Visions of the end
- Ending in futility : the future pessimism of science
- The limited universal responses of the theologians of hope
- Cosmological hope in the eschatologies of the Bible
- Reclaiming the resurrection in its cosmological setting
- Space-time in creation and new creation
- The future of matter
- Fruitful interaction : working out the relationship of creation and new creation
- Conclusion.