<transcy>The last things (Les choses dernières)</transcy>
The modern generation is so preoccupied with the affairs of the present that they have pushed the future out of their minds. Yet time is taking us all, at breakneck speed at times, towards certain but often ill-defined deadlines.
In "The Last Things," the author leads the reader on a study of these deadlines - death and dying, judgment, hell and heaven. Its goal is not speculation ("I think ...") or sentimentalism ("everything will be fine in the end"). On the contrary, he seeks to identify in biblical teaching what the truth of God is, and that in order to affirm it with clarity, simplicity and concretely for life in the world here below.
He writes with care and reflection and aims for a serious, sober but lively study of his subject. He also shows humility and sensitivity because, as a Christian, he is convinced that we should follow the Word of God where it leads us, but no further. These pages clarify our conception of the future. They also provide a perspective of renewed freshness and clarity about our life in the present.
Author
Paul Helm - Born in 1940, he is one of today's foremost British theologians and philosophers. He is a specialist in the thought of Jean Calvin. Educated at the prestigious University of Oxford, he taught philosophy at the University of Liverpool, King's College London, a seminary in Scotland, before also teaching at Regent College in Vancouver. He is the author of numerous books and articles, some of which are published or in the process of being published in French.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Responsible before God
Limits
Scriptures and responsibility
Concern and comfort
Time, a gift from God
2. Death and dying
Death is inevitable
The day of our death
Death is final and final
Dying and the ordeal of faith
Death and bodily resurrection
Should the believer wish die?
To sum up
3. The judgment
The reality of the judgment
The just God
God judges according to the truth
The standard of judgment
Saved by works?
4. The sky
Continuity and transformation
The redemptive, permanent and final character of the sky
1. Heaven is fundamentally redemptive
2. The sky has a permanent character
The sky is both a place of rest and activity
Critics about the sky
The sky: our vision and our reward
5. Hell
Opposition to the idea of hell
L 'hell and annihilation
Are there any differences in hell?
The Preaching of Hell
6. The glory begins here below
1 Corinthians 15
Romans 8
2 Corinthians 4 and 5
Some conclusions
Details
Original title : The Last Things
Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Europresse
Publication : November 2020
ISBN : 978-2-914562-64-5
Pages : 163
Dimensions
Format : paperback
Weight : 204 g