Towards the Day after Tomorrow: Essays on Humanity's Teloi and the Eschaton

Humanity is moving ever towards its final destination without knowing why when where: teloi multiple paths leading towards Gods eschaton. These essays examine the movement towards this day of reckoning and how such eschatological events are projected back into time. Towards the Day after Tomorrow or the one after that or months decades--centuries--away often we behave as though the end is upon us. These essays start with the beginning of the end: the incarnation. We examine the origins of Karl Barths realized eschatology in Expressionism. We consider death and judgment as usurped by humanity an eschaton without Gods forgiving judgment: multiple Holocausts. War ushers in the eschaton but how do Christians handle conflict in the light of a redefined just war theory? We analyze the eschatological insights into humanitys end in The Simpsons--post mortem. Consider the issue of atheistic human authorities usurping Gods judgment. Finally crisis and judgment are glimpsed in the mindset of people who suffer seizures--postlapsarian exile the sufferance of salvation: how God blesses us despite the chaos of our human-generated teloi in preparation for the end. As the end approaches events become darker chaotic confusion reigns: Judas immediately went out. And it was night.