Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction 1. Visions of a new day: early Semitic Christianity and Christian apocalyptic 2. Making history intelligible: eschatology and the apologists 3. Regaining the light: eschatology in the gnostic crisis (150-200) 4. Senectus Mundi: eschatology in the West, 200-250 5. A school for souls: Alexandrian eschatology and its critics (185-300) 6. The dawn of the final conflict: Latin eschatology in the great persecution (303-313) 7. Facing death in freedom: Eastern eschatology in the Age of Nicaea (325-400) 8. Redemptio Totius Corporis: Latin eschatology in the fourth century 9. Grace present and future: Greek eschatology in the fifth century 10. Signs of a church triumphant: Latin eschatology in the fifth century 11. Apokatastasis and apocalyptic: Eastern eschatology after Chalcedon 12. The end of all flesh: eschatology in the sixth-century West Bibliography Index