Calling Time Religion and Change at the Turn of the Millennium

by Percy, Martyn

• ISBN13: 9781474281157
• ISBN10: 147428115X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-10-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Author Biography

The Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy is member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University, Professor of Theological Education at King's College London and Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and Dean of Christchurch College, Oxford University, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
Part One: Religion and Time
1. Jubilee: A Biblical Perspective Philip R. Davies
2. The Angelic Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2.6-7 Darrell D. Hannah
3. Muslims and Time: Islam, Globalisation and Social Change at the Turn of the Millennium David Herbert
4. Is There an East Asian Millennium? East Asian Conceptions of Time James H. Grayson
5. A Threshold of Fear and of Hope: Religion, Society and the Dawn of the Millennium Michael Sadgrove
6. Pre-Millennial Tensions: What Pentecostal Ministers Look Forward To William K. Kay
7. Are You Suffering from PMT? The Impact of Millennial Time Damian Thompson
Part Two: Religion and Change
8. Owls and Roosters: Y2K and Millennium's End Richard Landes
9. 'Behold, I make all things new': History, Politics and the Challenge of the Millennium Andrew Bradstock
10. Christianity and the Future of Europe Kenneth N. Medhurst
11. Transforming Establishment: The Opportunity of a Millennium? David Jenkins
12. The Future of Theology Vernon White
13. Spirituality and Youth Sylvia Collins
14. The Sacred Canopy: Time and Religion at the Greenwich Millennium Dome Martyn Percy
Afterword
Index