Death and apocalypse in a time of fear
This article explores consequences of perpetuating apocalyptic patterns of thought and proposes that fear-based responses produce passivity and exacerbate the ends they prophesy. Martin Luther proposed honest, faithful confidence when facing personal death and the end of the world. Catherine Keller...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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| In: |
Dialog
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 263-270 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Rapture
B Apocalypse B Martin Luther B Death B Catherine Keller B Feminist Theology |
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| Summary: | This article explores consequences of perpetuating apocalyptic patterns of thought and proposes that fear-based responses produce passivity and exacerbate the ends they prophesy. Martin Luther proposed honest, faithful confidence when facing personal death and the end of the world. Catherine Keller stressed that apocalyptic logic and fear excite violence and propagate death. Faithfulness in love, connection to others, and refusal to collapse the world into binaries offer tonic for fear. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12434 |