Political Eschatology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666798371)

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable. Nothing disturbs us more deeply than incalculable time, unpredictable time--the time of the advent of the unpredictably new. In a series of interventions into contemporary political crises, McGrath reactualizes the early Christian sense of eschatology as the experience of a time that runs out rather than moves forward. In contemporary politics, economy, ecology, and technology, much that was familiar for most of the twentieth century--the intra-generational transmission of religious values, progressive economic growth, a stable global climate, and predictable movements of peoples and nonhuman species across the planet--is ending calamitously. Endtime, however, is not only the time of endings; it is also the time of unforeseeable beginnings.

Author: Sean J. McGrath
ISBN-10: 1666798371
ISBN-13: 9781666798371
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2023
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d