What Dare We Hope? Reconsidering Eschatology

by Sauter, Gerhard

• ISBN13: 9781563382710
• ISBN10: 1563382717
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

First in the new TPI/Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton) series entitled "Theology for the Twenty-first Century" (TTFC), this volume focuses on the foundations of Christian hope.

Table of Contents

Preface to the American / English Edition	ix
1. The Term "Eschatology" and Its Changing Nature	1	(26)
1.1. Eschatology--A Word with Many Meanings	1	(1)
1.2. Typical Applications of the Term "Eschatology"	2	(19)
1.3. Tensions and Controversies	21	(6)
2. Jesus of Nazareth, "Bearer of Hope"?	27	(41)
2.1. The Kingdom of God: A Distant Prospect?	27	(5)
2.2. Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God: Summer Lightning?	32	(4)
2.3. What Remains of the Hope of Christ?	36	(5)
2.4. Hoping for Christ	41	(6)
2.5. Jesus Christ: The Final One, the Coming One	47	(21)
3. The Activity of God in Humanity and in Its History	68	(51)
3.1. Eschatology as Boundary Marker of Theology	69	(11)
3.2. Eschatological Orientation of Christian Existence	80	(10)
3.3. In the Darkness of Hope	90	(3)
3.4. The Shining of the New Being in History	93	(4)
3.5. Radical Eschatology--Theology with a New Horizon	97	(22)
4. The God of Hope--The Sovereignty of the Future	119	(41)
4.1. Outbreaks and Breakthroughs	119	(7)
4.2. God in Global History: The Answer to the Foundational Crisis of Christianity and the Western Crisis of Meaning	126	(6)
4.3. World-Transforming Hope as an Answer to the Crisis of Relevancy within Christianity	132	(6)
4.4. Eschatology as Religio-Political Theory of Action: Hope of Liberation for the Oppressed	138	(9)
4.5. History as Context of Discovery	147	(13)
5. One in Hope? Ecumenical Perspectives	160	(24)
5.1. The Stunted Dialogue	160	(9)
5.2. The Certainty of Hope	169	(10)
5.3. Eschatology as the Yardstick for the Self-Understanding of the Church	179	(5)
6. Hope in the Life of the Churches	184	(25)
6.1. Accounting for Hope as Intellectual Pastoral Care	184	(4)
6.2. Hope beyond Death: "Immortality of the Soul" or "Resurrection of the Dead"?	188	(9)
6.3. The Promise of the Coming One	197	(2)
6.4. "Purification" as Therapy?	199	(3)
6.5. The Lord's Supper: Proclamation of the Coming Christ	202	(7)
7. Basic Questions of Eschatology	209	(16)
7.1. Conceptual Sources of Friction	209	(5)
7.2. Controlling Questions	214	(2)
7.3. Where Do We Look When We Answer?	216	(9)
Index of Scriptural References	225	(2)
Index of Names	227	(3)
Index of Subjects	230