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.

Neal DeRoo, John Panteleimon Manoussakis

Introduction; Part 1 Phenomenology of Eschatology; Chapter 1 The Phenomenality of Anticipation, Jean-Yves Lacoste; Chapter 2 Awaiting, Claude Romano; Part 2 Phenomenological Eschatology; Chapter 3 Sacramental Imagination and Eschatology, Richard Kearney; Chapter 4 The Promise of the New and the Tyranny of the Same, John Panteleimon Manoussakis; Chapter 5 John Zizioulas on Eschatology and Persons, Douglas H. Knight; Part 3 Eschatological Phenomenology; Chapter 6 The Eschatology of the Self and the Birth of the Being-with; Or, on Tragedy, Ilias Papagiannopoulos; Chapter 7 Being and the Promise, Jeffrey Bloechl; Part 4 Phenomenology and Eschatology: Historical Confluences; Chapter 8 "Hineingehalten in die Nacht": Heidegger's Early Appropriation of Christian Eschatology, Judith E. Tonning; Chapter 9 Phenomenology and Eschatology in Michel Henry, Jeffrey Hanson; Chapter 10 "Without World": Eschatology in Michel Henry, Kevin Hart;