Books of Religion / Eschatology
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Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction
By George W. E. NickelsburgJewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction
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The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology
By Jurgen MoltmannThis final volume of Moltmann's systematics centers on hope, thus completing a trajectory begun some three decades ago in his Theology of Hope. Eshatology, Moltmann contends, is often thought to...
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Rua and the Maori Millennium
By Peter Webster"In the heart of the Urewera ranges in the North Island of New Zealand, there is a great clearing in the forest, and scattered over it the empty houses of...
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Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature
By Greg CareyCarey presents an introduction to the elements of apocalyptic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, the intertestamental texts of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts. He...
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End-time Prophecies of the Bible
By David HaggithFrom the destruction and restoration of Jerusalem, the Rapture, Armageddon, the Second Coming, and the Seventh Millennium, a complete collection of visions and revelations of the end of the world...Even...
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How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate
By Catherine WessingerThis is a survey of cult religious violence as associated with Jonestown, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinriko, Montana Freemen, Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate and Chen Tao. The book presents case...
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Into the Future: The Foundations of Library and Information Services in the Post-industrial Era
By Michael H. Harris, Stan A. HannahThis book is a joy. It is delightful to read authors who so clearly have read widely and who have carefully thought about the impact of other fields' scholarly literature...
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The Millennium: End of Time? a New Beginning?
By Alfred McBride, Jack DominianIn The Millennium, noted catechist Father Alfred McBride strips away the layers of hype and hysteria to prove that, far from being the end of time, the year 2000 is...
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The Image of the Future
By Frederik Lodewijk PolakThe Image of the Future
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The Cataclysm: Just the Facts
By Ernest Charles PollardThe Cataclysm: Just the Facts
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The Little Book of Life After Death
By Gustav Theodor FechnerThe Little Book of Life After Death
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The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature
By Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald B. HerzmanDuring the Middle Ages, the Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, was believed to contain both the grand design of sacred history and the disguised history of the Present and future....
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Culture and Eschatology: The Iconographical Vision of Paul Evdokimov
By Peter C. PhanAmong the twentieth-century Orthodox theologians Paul Evdokimov (1901-1970) has without doubt achieved a position of preeminence. Born in St. Petersburg and emigrated to Paris in 1923, Evdokimov was educated at...
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Theology and the Spaces of Apocalyptic
By Cyril O'ReganO'Regan pointed to the ""exile"" of apocalyptic in the modern period, and its ""contemporary return"" in a host of theologians, including, but not limited to Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jurgen...
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Who are the Living-dead?: A Theology of Death, Life After Death, and the Living-dead
By RICHARD J. GEHMANThe author sets out to answer the pivotal question of who the living dead are, and in so doing opens the whole area of traditional African religion to the scrutiny...
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Apocalypticism and Millennialism: Shaping a Believers Church Eschatology for the Twenty-first Century
By Loren L. JohnsThis book gathers together twenty-two separate essays, presented originally at the thirteenth Believers Church conference, Bluffton, Ohio, in August of 1999. The essays analyze the phenomena of apocalypticism and millennialism...
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Renewal Theology: The Church, the kingdom, and last things
By John Rodman WilliamsA systematic theology for charismatic Christians. This volume discusses the nature and function of the Church, its various ministries, the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the relationship between...
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Voyage to the Milky Way: The Future of Space Exploration
By Donald GoldsmithThroughout history, humans have dreamt of colonizing other worlds. Explorers have eyed the heavens and have devised ingenious ways to travel into the skies, first to the Earth's moon, then...
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Adventures in Immortality
By William Proctor, George Gallup"According to internationally known pollster Dr. George Gallup, Jr., a full two-thirds of all American believe in life after death. Now, through Adventures in Immortality, we can take a close...
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Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women's Strategies for Reform
By Colleen M. GriffithPresenting practical strategies for reform and renewal of the Church, this strikingly direct volume brings together the voices of leading Catholic theologians who offer ideas for change while still showing...