Decreation
the last things of all creatures
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Word Count
99,000 words, Guess
Page Count
396 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28392551M
- ISBN-139781481302296
- ISBN-101481302299
- OCLC Control Number871062805
- OCLC Control Numberdecreationlastth0000grif
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014010731
- WikidataQ113381466
Classifications
- DDC236
- LCCBT821.3 .G75 2014
Description
Death is not the end -- either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures. Griffiths employs traditional and historical Christian theology of the last things to create both a grammar and a lexicon for a new eschatology. Griffiths imagines heaven as an endless, repetitively static, communal, and enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects each find a place. Hell becomes a final and irreversible separation from God -- annihilation -- sin's true aim and the last success of the sinner. This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.
Other Editions
- Decreation: the last things of all creatures
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