Sean J. McGrath

Political Eschatology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666798388
• Artikelnr.: 69701545

Autorenporträt

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.