Faith in the End: Eschatology for Times of Extinction (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Advocates for an approach to Christian end-times, not as the anticipation of particular futures, but as a way to inhabit the existential crises of our present, the ‘times of extinction’ in which we live. Public environmental concern has turned to the so-called "sixth mass extinction event" currently underway.The interdisciplinary field of extinction studies was established to increase our cultural understanding of that phenomenon, but hitherto there has been little engagement with religious faith and practice.This book stages the first conversation between extinction studies, Christian theology, and continental philosophy.It does so by reimagining eschatology - traditionally the study of ‘the last things’ in Christian faith - for times of extinction. Against an assumption that Christian belief in the end is essentially either about awaiting a final apocalyptic catastrophe or hoping for a final restoration of creation, the book argues that these are in fact the dubious hallmarks of what