**Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine** Christ Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chapters.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: A concise yet inclusive survey of the major topics of eschatology--the return of Christ in **Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine** Christ Our Hope is.
He is the author of The Christological Assimilation of the Apocalypse as well as other books and numerous articles in six languages that have been published worldwide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul O\'Callaghan is professor of Christian anthropology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, and fellow of the Pontifical Academy of Theology.
Especially important is the author\'s effort to inform the discussion with a contemporary focus on the person, taking into account both human aspirations and the findings of various sciences.
Christ Our Hope includes extensive references to the Fathers of the Church and to the history of theology.
He also considers the principal elements of eschatological fulfillment in light of the doctrine of the Trinity, and especially of the Holy Spirit.
The author uses New Testament Eschatology to re-work Old Testament apocalyptic material in light of Christ.
The discussion of each topic is rooted in Scripture.
Several interesting features inform the work.
And second, an awareness of the presence of Eschatology at the very heart of Christian theology as a whole: Christology, ecclesiology and sacraments, anthropology, ethics, and spirituality.
First, the ecumenical challenge, mainly deriving from Protestant and Eastern theology, and centered on what is often called intermediate eschatology.
O\'Callaghan highlights two significant developments of twentieth-century eschatology.
The book also considers the impact of Hope on the earthly life of the believer, and especially the process of the purification of Hope through death and purgatory.
The guiding principle of the work is the theological virtue of hope, in keeping with Benedict XVI\'s 2007 encyclical, Spe Salvi.
An extensive chapter explores eternal life, perpetual communion with God in heaven, as well as perpetual condemnation, the possibility of forever losing what God has promised to those who are faithful to him.
Paul O\'Callaghan considers the return of Christ in glory at the end of time, final resurrection, the renewal of the cosmos, and general judgment. **Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine** Christ Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chapters
