Icons of Hope – The ""Last Things"" in Catholic Imagination Thiel Hardback

Icons of HopeThe \""Last Things\"" in Catholic Imagination\nAuthor(s): John E. Thiel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268210045, 978-0268210045\nSynopsis\nIn Icons of Hope: The \""Last Things\"" in Catholic Imagination, John Thiel, one of the most influential Catholic theologians today, argues that modern theologians have been unduly reticent in their writing about \""last things\"": death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Beholden to a historical-critical standard of interpretation, they often have been reluctant to engage in eschatological reflection that takes the doctrine of the \""last things\"" seriously as real events that Christians are obliged to imagine meaningfully and to describe with some measure of faithful coherence. Modern theology's religious pluralism leaves room for a speculative style of interpretation that issues in icons of hopetheological portraits of resurrected life that can .