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Death is not the end - either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures.
Griffiths employs traditional and historical Christian theology of the last things to create both a grammar and a lexicon for a new eschatology. Griffiths imagines heaven as an endless, repetitively static, communal, and enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects each find a place. Hell becomes a final and irreversible separation from God - annihilation - sin's true aim and the last success of the sinner. This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: The Grammar of the Last Things
1 Lexicon
2 Last Things Defined
3 Annihilation: The First Last Thing
4 Simple Stasis: The Second Last Thing
5 Repetitive Stasis: The Third Last Thing
6 Epektasy: Denying Last Things
7 Iconicity: Representing Last Things
Part II: Doctrine About Last Things
8 Theology and Last Things
9 Doctrine and Last Things
10 The Doctrinal Schema
11 The Narrative Arc
12 Patterns of Thought
Part III: Timespace
13 The Lord's Eternity
14 The Chronic Temporality of Creatures
15 Time Damaged: Metronome
16 Time Healed: Liturgy, Systole, Fold
Part IV: Angels
17 Thinking About Angels
18 What Angels Are
19 Angelic Fall
20 Angelic Last Things
Part V: Humans
21 Human Flesh
22 The Discarnate Intermediate State
23 Human Last Things (1): Annihilation
24 Human Last Things (2): Heaven
25 Hell Reconstrued
26 The Church's Last Thing
Part VI: Plants, Animals, Inanimate Creatures
27 Plants and Animals
28 The Last Things of Plants and Animals
29 Inanimate Creatures
30 The Last Things of Inanimate Creatures
Part VII: The Last Things in the Devastation
31 Opus Domini
32 Trembling
33 Delight
34 Lament
35 Quietus
Part VIII: Bibliography
36 Bibliographic Essays
37 Bibliographic List
