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

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.