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This short textbook, the latest volume in the Guides to Theology series, surveys key themes and aspects of Christian hope by tracing eschatological ideas as they have developed from Scripture throughout the history of theology. John McDowell and Scott Kirkland present a series of lenses on understanding eschatological statements, or the content of Christian hope. They have structured their book...

a number of striking ways. Whereas earlier historicisms had been tempted to speak of the unfolding of history as the unfolding of divine revelation, Barth spoke of revelation as a crater: “But the activity of the community is related to the Gospel only in so far as it is no more than a crater formed by the explosion of a shell and seeks to be no more than a void in which the Gospel reveals itself.”63 Barth stood at the edge of the collapse of liberal confidence in historical progress and called a
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