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The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and Its World is unavailable, but you can change that!

The aim of this book is to establish and explore New Testament belief in the end of the world through an investigation of texts which—on the face of it—contain ‘end of the world’ language. It engages with recent discussion on how Jewish and early Christian ‘end of the world’ was meant to be understood, and interacts especially with N.T. Wright’s proposals. The first part of the book is given over...

None of our authors reasons that since the cosmos is to be dissolved there is nothing to be done except wait inertly for the end. Each makes clear that the time of waiting is to be marked by productive activity and moral endeavour, and that sluggishness, indolence or apathy will bring serious judgement. Living in the expectation of the end of the world or the coming intervention, for these writers, promotes action rather than discourages it.
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