Contents
Preface
Principal Abbreviations
Part One. The Dynamic of Hope
1. The Christian Virtue of Hope and the Epistemological Underpinnings of Christian Eschatology
Part Two. The Object of Christian Hope
2. Parousia: The Future Coming of the Lord Jesus in Glory
3. The Resurrection of the Dead
4. The New Heavens and the New Earth
5. Final Judgment
6. Heaven: Eternal Life in the Glory of Christ
7. Hell: The Perpetual Retribution of the Sinner
Part Three. The Stimulus of Hope in the World
8. The Living Presence of the Parousia
Part Four. Honing and Purifying Christian Hope
9. Death, the End of the Human Pilgrimage
10. Purgatory: The Purification of the Elect
11. The Implications of an “Intermediate Eschatology”
Part Five. The Power and Light of Hope
12. The Central Role of Christian Eschatologyin Theology
Selected Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names