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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809679303321

Autore

Griffiths Paul J.

Titolo

Decreation : the last things of all creatures / / Paul J. Griffiths

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco : , : Baylor University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4813-0346-5

1-4813-0231-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

236

Soggetti

Eschatology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-384) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraphs; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. The Grammar of the Last Things; 1 Lexicon ; 2 Last Things Defined ; 3 Annihilation: The First Last Thing; 4 Simple Stasis: The Second Last Thing; 5 Repetitive Stasis: The Third Last Thing; 6 Epektasy: Denying Last Things; 7 Iconicity: Representing Last Things; Part II. Doctrine about Last Things; 8 Theology and Last Things ; 9 Doctrine and Last Things; 10 The Doctrinal Schema; 11 The Narrative Arc; 12 Patterns of Thought; Part III. Timespace; 13 The LORD's Eternity

14 The Chronic Temporality of Creatures15 Time Damaged: Metronome; 16 Time Healed: Liturgy, Systole, Fold; Part IV. Angels; 17 Thinking about Angels; 18 What Angels Are; 19 Angelic Fall; 20 Angelic Last Things; Part V: Humans; 21 Human Flesh; 22 The Discarnate Intermediate State; 23 Human Last Things (1): Annihilation; 24 Human Last Things (2): Heaven; 25 Hell Reconstrued; 26 The Church's Last Thing; Part VI. Plants, Animals, Inanimate Creatures; 27 Plants and Animals; 28 The Last Things of Plants and Animals; 29 Inanimate Creatures; 30 The Last Things of Inanimate Creatures

Part VII. The Last Things in the Devastation31 Opus Domini; 32 Trembling; 33 Delight; 34 Lament; 35 Quietus; Part VIII. Bibliography; 36 Bibliographic Essays; 37 Bibliographic List; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The End of All Things