Eschatology: Death and the Eternal Life (Second Edition)

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CUA Press, 2007 - 307 páginas
Originally published in English in 1988, Joseph Ratzinger's Eschatology remains internationally recognized as a leading text on the "last things"—heaven and hell, purgatory and judgment, death and the immortality of the soul. This highly anticipated second edition includes a new preface by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI and a supplement to the bibliography by theologian Peter A. Casarella. Eschatology presents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the center of Christian belief—the Church's faith in eternal life. Recognizing the task of contemporary eschatology as "to marry perspectives, so that person and community, present and future, are seen in their unity," Joseph Ratzinger brings together recent emphasis on the theology of hope for the future with the more traditional elements of the doctrine. His book has proven to be as timeless as it is timely.

 

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The State of the Question
1
Part One The Eschatological Problem as a Question About the Very Essence of Christianity
17
Part Two Death and Immortality The Individual Dimention of Eschatology
67
Part Three The Future Life
163
Some Supplementary Reflections
241
Appendix II Afterword to the English Edition
261
Notes
275
Select Bibliography
291
Index of Names
299
Index of Subjects
302
Index of References
305
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