Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction, Science and theology on the end of the world and the ends of God / John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker -- Introduction, Eschatology and the sciences / John Polkinghorne -- Scientific accounts of ultimate catastrophes in our life-bearing universe / William R. Stoeger -- Eschatology : some questions and some insights from science / John Polkinghorne -- Lord of time : brain theory and eschatology / Detlef Linke -- Subjective and objective hope : propositional and attitudinal aspects of eschatology / Fraser Watts -- Introduction, Cultural perspectives on eschatology / Larry D. Bouchard and William Schweiker -- Cultural cosmology and the impact of the natural sciences on philosophy and culture / William R. Stoeger -- Ends of man and the future of God / Janet Martin Soskice -- Contigent futures : imagining the ethics of cosmology / Larry D. Bouchard -- Church as a cultural space : eschatology and ecclesiology / Christoph Schwöbel -- Time as a moral space : moral cosmologies, creation, and last judgment / William Schweiker -- Introduction, Reading the Bible with "the end" in view / Donald H. Juel and Patrick D. Miller -- Faith at the nullpunkt / Walter Brueggemann -- Judgment and joy / Patrick D. Miller -- Christian hope and the denial of death : encountering New Testament eschatology / Donald H. Juel -- Hope and creation / Hans Weder

Introduction, Realistic eschatology / Michael Welker -- Our reasons for hope / Gerhard Sauter -- Eschatology without a future? / Kathryn Tanner -- Is there life after death? / Jürgen Moltmann -- Enter into joy! : sin, death, and the life of the world to come / Miroslav Volf -- Resurrection and eternal life : the canonic memory of the resurrected Christ, his reality, and his glory / Michael Welker -- Appendix, Metaphor and reality / Hans Weder