Course Description
This course will look at: 1. Eschatology in Scripture and Tradition; 2. General eschatology: “the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come”; 3. Individual eschatology: death, judgment, and the afterlife; 4. The Christian’s engagement in the present world with a view to the parousia still to come.
Bibliography
Council Documents.
Texts from the Fathers of the Church.
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae, III, Supplement.
Paul O’CALLAGHAN, Christ Our Hope. An Introduction to Eschatology, CUA, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Richard O’CONNOR, Eschatology. Class notes for First-Year Students, Cycle I of S.T.B. Course, Angelicum, Rome, 2020.
Candido POZO, Theology of the Beyond, trans. Mark A. Pilon, St Paul’s, New York, 2009.
Joseph RATZINGER, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life, trans. M. Waldstein, CUA, Washington, D.C., 1988 (first published in German in 1977).