The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology
This would be a great addition to Logos's offerings:
The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology
Jerry L. Walls, editor
OUP, 2010
Excerpts from the Book Review in Themelios 33:3:
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Following Walls’ introduction, the book unfolds in three parts, encompassing a total of thirty-eight entries that range over a wide field of biblical, theological, philosophical, and cultural issues related to the complex subject of eschatology. This Oxford Handbook is a massive tome totaling 726 pages, and the diversity of topics covered is equaled only by the diversity of its contributors, who represent various theological traditions and schools of thought.
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Part I considers ‘Historical Eschatology’ and is divided into two sections. The first is populated by essays on the Old Testament and the rise of apocalypticism, apocalyptic eschatology in the ancient world, New Testament eschatology and its relationship to the church, eschatology and the historical Jesus, and the place of eschatology in the Early Church Fathers. The second section explores ‘Eschatology in World Religions’ and includes discourses on Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu perspectives.
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Part II explores eschatological beliefs in distinct Christian traditions and theological movements including Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Process, Liberation, and Feminist theologies.
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The third part of the volume, ‘Issues in Eschatology’, focuses on theological issues in its first segment and on philosophical and cultural issues in the second. In the first on theological issues, notable theologians Douglas Farrow, Clark Pinnock, and David Bentley Hart give their attention to church and ecumenism, annihilationism, and the meaning of life respectively (other chapters cover millennialism, resurrection, heaven, hell, purgatory, and universalism). The contribution by David Hart, ‘Death, Final Judgment, and the Meaning of Life’, is particularly good. Remaining true to his Eastern Orthodox heritage, Hart contends for eschatological divinization as the hope of fallen persons.
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The second section of Part III examines philosophical and cultural issues, including contributions by Wolfhart Pannenberg (‘Modernity, History, and Eschatology’), Stephen Webb (‘Eschatology and Politics’), Michael Peterson (‘Eschatology and Theodicy’), and William Abraham (‘Eschatology and Epistemology’). The multifarious questions of cosmology and time are taken up expertly by Robert Russell (‘Cosmology and Eschatology’) and William Lane Craig (‘Time, Eternity, and Eschatology’).
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Welcome additions also include Heidi J. Hornik’s piece, ‘Eschatology and Fine Art’ and the piece ‘Eschatology and Pop Culture’ by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence.
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The book concludes with a short essay by Richard Bauckham which, among other topics, addresses emerging eschatological issues ‘after Moltmann’ in the 21st century. Of particular interest to Bauckham are the ‘myths of progress’ that stubbornly remain even after postmodernism’s critique of modernity’s over-confidence in human, societal ‘progress’. Bauckham identifies several forms this takes: the neoliberal ideology of free-market economic globalization, postmillennial utopianism, and science and technology.
Kent Eilers, "A Review of The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology" In , in Themelios: Volume 33 No. 3, December 2008 (United Kingdom: The Gospel Coalition, 2008), 99.
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Yes please!
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I would also add the oxford handbook of systematic theology ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924576-5
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Good addition, Blair. And while we're at it, why not all the others in the series:
- The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959652-2)
- The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923777-7)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955781-3)
- The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532609-3)
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959653-9)
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-533135-6)
- The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532591-1)
- The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539969-1)
- The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-960130-1)
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974762-7)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920454-0)
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954365-6)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-958896-1)
- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-536964-9)
- The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927388-1)
- The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies
- The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology
- The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics
- The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
- The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
- The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine
- The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States
- The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon
- The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion
- The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics
- The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion
- The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media
- The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
- The Oxford Handbook of the Modern British Sermon 1689-1901
- The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought
- The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
- The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
(Sorry, I got tired of copying and pasting the ISBN's too. And these are not in order of preference or alphabetical order, just the order they came up in an Amazon.com search.)
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Rosie Perera said:
Good addition, Blair. And while we're at it, why not all the others in the series:
- The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959652-2)
- The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923777-7)
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(Sorry, I got tired of copying and pasting the ISBN's too. And these are not in order of preference or alphabetical order, just the order they came up in an Amazon.com search.)
I'd just like to add a ringing endorsement of this old suggestion for the entire series. Great idea.
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[Y] for the entire series.
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I definitely would like any handbook Oxford has on bible, theology, judaism, linguistics, ANE, and Classical Studies. There are too many series that they have on the site to link to, so I will just link to the site itself.
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I've added all of these to our list of book candidates. Thanks all for the suggestions! In the future, your book suggestions will get on our list more quickly if you email them to suggest@faithlife.com. I'm newly in charge of handling all of our book candidates and that email alias goes straight to me! Thanks again! [:)]
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The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology is a really great collection of essays on eschatology, one of the best one-volume works on the topic.
I was not familiar with the rest of this series, but most of the volumes look really interesting. Thanks to Rosie for bringing the entire series to our attention. I hope they make it into Logos soon.0 -
Leigh Vander Woude said:
I've added all of these to our list of book candidates.
Fantastic! This is great news. Can I just check whether you've added only the ones suggested by Rosie or the entire series? There are some titles Rosie didn't add, and I can write them here if necessary.
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Leigh Vander Woude said:
I've added all of these to our list of book candidates. Thanks all for the suggestions! In the future, your book suggestions will get on our list more quickly if you email them to suggest@faithlife.com. I'm newly in charge of handling all of our book candidates and that email alias goes straight to me! Thanks again!
Leigh, I'm so happy to see you are going through all the old Suggestions threads and finding lists of suggested books to add to your candidates list.
I hope the candidates don't have to have a vitriolic campaign encompassing a long season of primaries followed by more campaigning and then a tense election night in order to make it into pre-pub. [:)]
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In fact, I'm now a tiny bit worried that you might have only included the ones that Rosie listed, so I'm just going to go ahead and list the others here... There are some great ones that aren't listed:
Oxford Handbook of Christianity in Asia
Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology
Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies
Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender
Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800
Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies
Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts
Oxford Handbook of African American Theology
Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature
Oxford Handbook of The Psalms
Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies
Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology
Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative
Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
Oxford Handbook of Religion
Oxford Handbook of European Islam
Oxford Handbook of African American Islam
Oxford Handbook of Atheism
Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics
Oxford Handbook of American Islam
Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies
Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology0 -
