Christian Understandings of the Future; Christian Understandings of the Future; ; ; Contents; Christian Futures: An Introduction; Notes; For Further Reading; Origins; Prophecies and Riddles: Jewish Prophetic and Apocalyptic Traditions; Notes; Parables and Resurrection: Already and Not Yet in the Jesus Tradition; Notes; Seeds and Sheafs: The Eschatology of the Apostle Paul; Notes; Alpha and Omega: The Book of Revelation; Notes; Historical Developments; Martyrs: Early Christianity; Notes; Time: Origen; Notes; Patriae: Augustine of Hippo; Notes; Legends: Pseudo-Methodius and the Antichrist.
NotesSketches: Gregory the Great; Notes; Songs: Celtic Sources; Notes; Polemics: Bernard and Hildegard; Notes; Patterns: Joachim of Fiore; Notes; Circles: Dante Alighieri; Notes; Visions: Julian of Norwich and the Black Plague; Notes; Maps: Christopher Columbus; Notes; Urgency: Martin Luther; Notes; Taxonomies: Isaac Newton and John Donne; Notes; Anxieties: John Calvin, Increase Mather, and Second Advent Theologians; Notes; Images: Virgins of the Apocalypse; Notes; Liberation: Eschatology and Enslaved Africans in North America; Notes; Jeremiads: Jonathan Edwards and the American Republic.
NotesUtopias: Postmillennial America; Notes; Charts: Prophecy Belief 1850-1950; Notes; For Further Reading; Contemporary Challenges; Theories: From Albert Schweitzer to Karl Rahner; Notes; Protests: From Martin Luther King Jr. to Leymah Gbowee; Notes; Clocks: The Atomic Age; Notes; Failures: The Limits of Christian Futures; Notes; Questions: Science and Christian Eschatology; Notes; Towardness; Notes; For Further Reading; Glossary of Terms; Index.
0
8
8
With engaging sketches of the book of Daniel to contemporary America, Amy Frykholm offers a tour through more than two millennia of Christian thought on the future. Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had for future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds.