Chapter One: The End of All Things (1)

As the biblical doctrine of the last things, eschatology concerns an end of all things. It has to do with the end of all things -- the end of time and history; the end of our present world; the end of the history of the church; the end of the time of salvation; and the end of each human personally. End as Goal The end with which escha-tology is concerned is not merely the cessation of time, history, and the world. It is true, of course, that time will eventually run out, history will be done,...