Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now

Given the resurgence of eschatological thought in contemporary theology and the continued relevance of phenomenology in philosophy, this book brings together leading thinkers such as Lacoste, Romano, Kearney and Hart to explore the ways in which these two seemingly unrelated disciplines illuminate each other. Through a series of phenomenological analyses of key eschatological concepts and detailed readings in some of the key figures of both disciplines, this text reveals that phenomenology and eschatology are fundamentally inter-related, and that neither can be fully understood without the other: without eschatology, phenomenology would not have developed the ethical and temporal aspects that characterize it today; without phenomenology, eschatology would remain relegated to the sidelines of serious theological discourse. Along the way, such diverse themes as time, death, parousia, and the call are re-examined and redefined.

Author: John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/18/2009
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780754667018

About the Author
Neal DeRoo teaches philosophy at Boston College. He is the co-editor of The Logic of Incarnation: James K.A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion (2009) and has lectured worldwide on the topics of phenomenology, religion, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. John Panteleimon Manoussakis teaches philosophy at the College of Holy Cross. He is the author of God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic (2007). He has edited After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy (2005), and co-edited Heidegger and the Greeks: Interpretive Essays (2006) and Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge (2007).