Political Eschatology

Sean J McGrath

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English

Pickwick Publications
06 December 2023

Religious ethics; Christianity; Christian life & practice; Christian social thought & activity

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable. Nothing disturbs us more deeply than incalculable time, unpredictable time--the time of the advent of the unpredictably new. In a series of interventions into contemporary political crises, McGrath reactualizes the early Christian sense of eschatology as the experience of a time that runs out rather than moves forward. In contemporary politics, economy, ecology, and technology, much that was familiar for most of the twentieth century--the intra-generational transmission of religious values, progressive economic growth, a stable global climate, and predictable movements of peoples and nonhuman species across the planet--is ending calamitously. Endtime, however, is not only the time of endings; it is also the time of unforeseeable beginnings.

By: Sean J McGrath
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9781666738094
ISBN 10: 1666738093
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean J. McGrath has published widely in the history of ideas and the philosophy of religion. He is a professor of philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an adjunct professor of religious studies at McGill University.

Reviews for Political Eschatology

"""In Political Eschatology, Sean McGrath argues that a society which mostly thinks that it has departed from Christianity is actually 'theologically saturated' in both its ideas and its institutions, but that this theology is fatally 'deteriorated.' McGrath wants to convert the now prevailing 'apocalyptic anxiety' to 'eschatological hope' by showing the proper character of Christian faith, and he succeeds wonderfully. An informative and inspiring book."" --David Cayley, author of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey ""Eschatology is back, and political eschatology is even more relevant than it has ever been before. Sean McGrath shows us in honest clarity and in seven well documented essays how important it is to not only include eschatology in our theological reflection about the consequences of modernity and the very future of humanity, but to make it the very center of it."" --Gerbern S. Oegema, professor of biblical studies, McGill University"