Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures

Paul J. Griffiths

Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Country
United States
Published
12 January 2018
Pages
408
ISBN
9781481302302

Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures

Paul J. Griffiths

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Death is not the endaeither for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation , Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures. Griffiths employs traditional and historical Christian theology of the last things to create both a grammar and a lexicon for a new eschatology. Griffiths imagines heaven as an endless, repetitively static, communal, and enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects each find a place. Hell becomes a final and irreversible separation from Godaannihilationasin’s true aim and the last success of the sinner. This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.

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