This would be a great addition to Logos's offerings:
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.
