Two Announcements
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Two Announcements
My most recent book, some forthcoming articles
First, my latest book—I know, I seem to be publishing one every other week at the moment, but that really is simply a coincidence of scheduling—Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay of the Future of Christian Belief (Baker Academic) is now available in hardback, as an eBook, and as an audiobook. The last of these I have not had a chance to assess.
Second, I will be publishing a series of articles on the eschatology of the New Testament in weeks to come. It will not begin next week, as I will be publishing another in my series of “Books for a Very Long Journey” columns then. But it will in all likelihood begin a week thereafter.
I am currently reading Tradition and Apocalypse and am highly intrigued by the promised upcoming articles on eschatology. It seems to me that the entire New Testament (not just Revelation) is apocalyptic in orientation, with the assumption that the beginning of the coming age (aion) will soon (within a generation) be coming to pass. Learning to read the New Testament in a historically situated eschatology helped me to see its implicit (and sometimes rather explicit) universalist themes.
I am thoroughly enjoying the book so far. That being said, I enjoy your discussions of literature and your own fiction most of all and check daily for more installments of your recommendations. I do hope you will consider adding in with the obscure some thoughts on more known authors and favorite works. Thoughts on Sebald, Joyce, Pynchon, and your BFF Proust? Maybe?