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The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature

ISBN: 978-0-631-22085-5
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316 pages
October 2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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* Brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'.
* Provides an exegesis of novels, plays, and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Shakespeare.

* Considers the ideas of critical theorists such as Frank Kermode, Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricoeur.
* Examines the main themes of Christian eschatology.
* Offers a critical view of the doctrines of the last things produced by major modern theologians.
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