Decreation

The Last Things of All Creatures

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-12
Mått:152 x 228 x 23 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:Baylor University Press
ISBN:9781481302302

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

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

Innehållsförteckning

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