This book brings Christian theology, creative literature and
literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of "the end."
Where appropriate it also considers recent scientific views on the
nature of time.
'Postmodern' critical theorists and many other writers emphasize
the 'open' nature of endings, but this book suggests that the
mixture of openness and closure in Christian eschatology not only
offers a coherent sense of an ending, but may make it possible to
construct endings in the here and now. On the way to this
conclusion the book provides an exegesis of novels, plays and poems
by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing,
Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and
Shakespeare. Among critical theorists, postmodern and otherwise, it
considers especially the ideas of Frank Kermode, Northrop Frye,
Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur.
The author also examines the main themes of Christian
eschatology - such as death, parousia, resurrection, human destiny
and the nature of eternity - and offers a critical view of the
doctrines of the last things produced by major modern theologians,
including Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg. Through this
dialogue the book aims to form an image of the eternal 'wholeness'
of persons in the life of the triune God that takes seriously the
deconstruction of images of domination.
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