Table of Contents
Foreword Jürgen Moltmann xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction Inferno e Speranza 1
0.1 Hope and Hell 1
0.2 Eschatology 2
0.3 Hell's Annihilation 4
0.4 Synopsis 5
0.5 Contexts and Traditions 7
0.6 Contradictory/Harmony Monism 8
0.7 Dialogue 12
0.8 Some Points of Style 14
0.9 Hell and Hope 15
Chapter 1 To Hell and Back 17
1.1 Until Justice and Mercy Embrace? 17
1.2 The Annihilation of Hell/The Hell of Annihilation 21
1.3 The Hell of Freedom 26
1.4 The Passing of Hell in The Coming of God 34
1.4.1 The Theology of the Cross 35
1.4.2 Freedom 40
1.4.3 Justice 43
1.4.4 God 45
1.4.5 Scripture 45
1.5 Universalism and Its Critics 48
1.6 St Peter's Apocalypse Revisited 50
Chapter 2 The Reversal of Time in the Future of God 54
2.1 The Two Angels of Time 55
2.2 Augustine as a Point of Departure 59
2.3 Reversals: Ontic and Epistemological 65
2.4 Futurum and Adventus 73
2.5 Temporal Diversity and Unity 84
2.6 Time and Eternity; Nature and Grace 96
Chapter 3 The Redemption of Time in the Presence of God 100
3.1 The Redemption of Time: Fulfilment and Negation 100
3.2 Transience 104
3.3 The Past 110
3.4 Death 120
3.5 Redeemed Time 128
3.5.1 Cyclical Time 130
3.5.2 Presence and the Present (Moment) 133
3.5.3 Eucharist, Sabbath, and the Moment 137
3.6 The Final Coincidence of Opposites 140
Chapter 4 The Triumph of Glory 145
4.1 (Re-)Placing Hell 146
4.2 Nature, Grace, and Glory 153
4.3 Possible Objections, Possible Answers 172
4.3.1 Universalism of the Cross 180
4.3.2 God's Nature; God's Will 190
4.3.3 The Nature/Promise of Freedom 194
4.4 A Preliminary Response 206
Chapter 5 Between Creation and Eschaton: The Foundational and Transcendental Directions of Time 210
5.1 Futurity in Bloch, Heidegger, and Beyond 213
5.2 Foundational and Transcendental Time in the Philosophy of Hendrik Hart 228
5.2.1 Modes of Being/Time 231
5.2.2 Founding, Qualifying, Guiding: Past, Present, Future 236
5.2.3 Expression and Reference: Immanence and Transcendence 238
5.2.4 Creation and Eschaton 241
5.2.5 Differentiation and Integration 242
5.3 Comparison with Moltmann 244
5.4 Panentheism? 256
Chapter 6 The Nature of Grace 262
6.1 Creational Grace 263
6.1.1 Heaven and Earth: The Covenantal Dynamics of Existence 268
6.2 The Barth-Brurmer Debate 272
6.3 Creational Grace in Moltmann? 282
6.4 Eschatological Grace 293
6.5 God in History? 301
6.6 The Gift of Transience 311
Chapter 7 Doing Justice (According) to Scripture 315
7.1 A Biblical Foundation? 316
7.2 Doing Justice to the Final Judgment 340
7.3 Justice and Mercy: Face to Face 353
Conclusion Grace and Spes 360
8.1 A Biblical Universalism? 360
8.2 Final Justice, Final Judgment 362
8.3 From Autonomy to Freedom 368
8.4 Spes (within the Economy of Grace) 384
Appendix Birthpangs of the New Creation 391
9.1 Babylon 395
9.2 Birthing 402
9.3 Judgment and Vindication 411
9.4 Fire and Brimstone 414
9.5 Judgment unto Salvation 416
Summary 424
Bibliography 429
Author Index 465
