A consummate work of impressively detailed theological scholarship... -- Paul T. Vogel -- The Midwest Book Review

Informed amateur theologians as well as trained ones, readers who enjoy a rigorously thoughtful writer, and Christians seeking to hone a greater intellectual connection to their faith will find this a rewarding and stimulating book. -- Russell E. Saltzman -- Aleteia

A major work on the traditional theme of the last things. -- Neil Ormerod -- Theological Studies

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A stimulating theological study. -- Choice

This is a remarkable book. In the clarity and care of its argumentation it is a model of theological method. While treating questions that have sometimes been relegated to the fringe of Christian theological enquiry, it sheds new light on topics across the range of theological concerns: the nature of time, tears, and political quietism, to name but a few. -- David Clough -- Anglican Theological Review

The bookâs expansiveness shows how valuable and needed it is for theologians to reflect on the last things, and Griffithsâs volume will surely be a benchmark for a long time to come on this topic. -- David Cloutier -- The Journal of Religion

No one reading this book can fail to admire the creativity, energy and originality of its author, and perhaps to some extent its audacity. -- Celia Deane-Drummond -- International Journal of Systematic Theology

There is a kind of sobriety in evidence here, most of all in the lucidity of the prose and the delimitations of the project. But there is also an enraptured, unadulterated pleasure of the soul at workâ¦The result is sublime. -- Brad East -- Marginalia Review of Books

Death is not the end - either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures.Griffiths employs traditional and historical Christian theology of the last things to create both a grammar and a lexicon for a new eschatology. Griffiths imagines heaven as an endless, repetitively static, communal, and enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects each find a place. Hell becomes a final and irreversible separation from God - annihilation - sin's true aim and the last success of the sinner. This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.
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Death is not the end - either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures.
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Preface and AcknowledgementsPart I: The Grammar of the Last Things1 Lexicon2 Last Things Defined3 Annihilation: The First Last Thing4 Simple Stasis: The Second Last Thing5 Repetitive Stasis: The Third Last Thing6 Epektasy: Denying Last Things7 Iconicity: Representing Last ThingsPart II: Doctrine About Last Things8 Theology and Last Things9 Doctrine and Last Things10 The Doctrinal Schema11 The Narrative Arc12 Patterns of ThoughtPart III: Timespace13 The Lord's Eternity14 The Chronic Temporality of Creatures15 Time Damaged: Metronome16 Time Healed: Liturgy, Systole, FoldPart IV: Angels17 Thinking About Angels18 What Angels Are19 Angelic Fall20 Angelic Last ThingsPart V: Humans21 Human Flesh22 The Discarnate Intermediate State23 Human Last Things (1): Annihilation24 Human Last Things (2): Heaven25 Hell Reconstrued26 The Church's Last ThingPart VI: Plants, Animals, Inanimate Creatures27 Plants and Animals28 The Last Things of Plants and Animals29 Inanimate Creatures30 The Last Things of Inanimate CreaturesPart VII: The Last Things in the Devastation31 Opus Domini32 Trembling33 Delight34 Lament35 QuietusPart VIII: Bibliography36 Bibliographic Essays37 Bibliographic List
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ISBN
9781481302302
Publisert
2018-01-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Baylor University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
408

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Om bidragsyterne

Paul J. Griffiths is Warren Chair of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.