New Creation: A Primer on Living in the Time Between the Times - Softcover

Clapp, Rodney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532639643 ISBN 13: 9781532639647

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2018

Synopsis

New Creation introduces readers to the thrilling, biblically-based vision of a whole world created by and to be redeemed by God. Written at an eminently accessible level, it shows how endings (or eschatologies) animate our lives. It rehearses the biblical story from an eschatological angle, emphasizing that Christian eschatology entails a politics. It then delves into how eschatology affects the priesthood of all believers, peace-making, prayer, and creation (including the rocks and trees, dogs and bees, and maybe even sex). With a light hand, it provides biblical cultural background where needed. Throughout, it connects theological groundings to present-day life, Christian discipleship, and contemporary issues. Here is a view of eschatology that bypasses escapist Rapture theology and puts forward a robust, exciting life now and in the age to come, very different from New Yorker cartoons featuring the afterlife as a bland, boring affair of strumming harps on clouds.

About this title

About the Author:

Rodney Clapp is an editor for Cascade Books. Formerly a columnist for The Christian Century, his award-winning books include A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society and Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels. His most recent book is the novel The Second Baptism of Albert Simmel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1532639643
• ISBN 13: 9781532639647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150