Consummation (Hardcover)

Arnold A. Van Ruler

ISBN 13: 9798385258185

Published by Resource Publications (CA), 2025

About this Item

Hardcover. This volume complements a previous volume of translated essays by the Dutch theologian Arnold van Ruler (1908-1970), published by Wipf & Stock, namely This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold van Ruler for Ecotheology (2023). It offers a translation of eighteen essays on eschatology in Arnold van Ruler's Verzameld Werk Deel 5C. These essays are included in chronological order under four rubrics, namely a) Law and Kingdom of God, b) The millennium, c) Life and death, and d) Later texts on eschatology. The volume includes an introduction by the Dutch editor Dirk van Keulen and an editor's afterword on the promise of Van Ruler's eschatology for contemporary ecotheology. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Consummation (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385258185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This volume complements a previous volume of translated essays by the Dutch theologian Arnold van Ruler (1908-1970), published by Wipf & Stock, namely This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold van Ruler for Ecotheology (2023). It offers a translation of eighteen essays on eschatology in Arnold van Ruler's Verzameld Werk Deel 5C. These essays are included in chronological order under four rubrics, namely a) Law and Kingdom of God, b) The millennium, c) Life and death, and d) Later texts on eschatology. The volume includes an introduction by the Dutch editor Dirk van Keulen and an editor's afterword on the promise of Van Ruler's eschatology for contemporary ecotheology.

About the Authors

Arnold A. van Ruler (1908-1970) was a major Dutch Reformed systematic theologian, based at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.


Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God's Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What's Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007-2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project "An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'" at UWC.