Eschatology and Space The Lost Dimension in Theology Past and Present [Paperback]

This unique volume focuses on the subjects of time in the area of theology known as 'eschatology,' the consideration of the fullness, the limit, and the goal of time. He traces the historical development of understandings of eschatology from the Bible to contemporary theology and adds a postcolonial/subaltern perspective.Introduction Region and Religion Space, History, and the Kingdom Eschatological Crisis and Renewal Types of Eschatological Thinking The Postcolonial Challenge Dimensions of Liminality Toward a Latitudinal Eschatology Condemnation and Salvation: a Conclusion

This evocative and beautiful book constitutes a paradigm shift from the time and history to the space of theological geopolitics. Space is a dimension that has gone unnoticed under the hegemony of the Heilsgeschichte in theology, and Westhelle reveals why it is necessary to discover the importance of the tangential space of the border, the margin, the desert, the stranger, the eschaton (because the latter is also space: The Promise Land ): the eutopia. Along the way he examines the themes of exteriority, foreignness, colonialism, and the space of the Other as periphery, with domination as the center. From the classic theology, theology of liberation, and the postcolonial up to G. Agamben, J. Taubes and W. Benjamin, the author covers several histories to give importance to choratic eschatology. We from the South and oppressed exteriority salute this pioneering work! - Enrique Dussel, Em?rito UAM-Iztapalapa /Mexico city

Eschatology and Space is the best book on theology that I've read in the past ten years. Westelle is right: starting with experience and vulnerability as spaces for divine revelation, he builds towards a new vision of eschatology in which salvation and condemnation are not only topics to ponder but rather realities that are already alive. - Elsa Tamez, professor at Latin American Biblical University, researcher at Ecumenical Departmenlã3