Seminar readings center on Augustine's City of God (Books 20-22), Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Heaven Is a World of Love," William Temple on the conditions of eternal life, and Karl Barth's sections on the Holy Spirit and Christian hope from the Church Dogmatics. Supplementary readings include works by Jüngel, Rahner, Baillie, and Leith's chapter in Basic Christian Doctrine.
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1. THE CHRISTIAN HOPE IN ETERNAL LIFE
Seminar Readings
Augustine. Books 20–22. In Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans, translated by Henry Bettenson, pp. 895–1091. London: Penguin Books, first published 1467, this translation 1972 with introduction by David Knowles, reissued with new introduction 1984, reissued with new introduction, notes, and chronology 2003 by G. R. Evans. lxxiii + 1097 pp.
Edwards, Jonathan. “Heaven Is a World of Love.” In The Works of Jonathan Edwards. Vol. 8, Ethical Writings, Sermon 15, pp. 366–397. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Temple, William. “Moral and Religious Conditions of Eternal Life.” In Nature, Man and God: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow in the Academical Years 1932–1933 and 1933–1934, Lecture 18, pp. 452–472. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Barth, Karl. “The Command as the Judgment of God.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. II, The Doctrine of God, Part 2, § 39, pp. 733–782. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1957.
——— “The Holy Spirit and Christian Hope.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3, second half, § 73, pp. 902–942. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1962.
Alternative Seminar Readings
Rahner, Karl. “Reflections on Eternal Life” in Theological Investigations, XIII, 176–184.
——— On the Theology of Death. Translated by Charles H. Henkey. New York: Herder and Herder, 1961. 127 pp.
Jüngel, Eberhard. Death: The Riddle and the Mystery. Translated by Iain and Ute Nicol. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974. 136 pp.
Supplementary Readings
Johnson, William Stacy and John H. Leith, eds. “Eschatology.” In Reformed Reader: A Sourcebook in Christian Theology. Vol 1, Classical Beginnings, 1519–1799, Chapter 8, pp. 377–394. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
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FOUNDATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES Page 7 Leith, John H. “The Christian Hope.” In Basic Christian Doctrine, Chapter 22, pp. 286–303. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993. Fontinell, Eugene. Self, God, and Immortality: A Jamesian Investigation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. 232 pp. Taylor, A. E. The Christian Hope of Immortality. New York: Macmillan, 1938. 110 pp. Baillie, John. And the Life Everlasting. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. 287 pp. revised January 30, 2016
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