Introduction: Science and Theology on the End of the World and the Ends of God / John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker
Pt. 1. Eschatology in the Natural Sciences: Catastrophes and Hope
Introduction: Eschatology and the Sciences / John Polkinghorne
1. Scientific Accounts of Ultimate Catastrophes in Our Life-Bearing Universe / William R. Stoeger
2. Eschatology: Some Questions and Some Insights from Science / John Polkinghorne
3. Lord of Time: Brain Theory and Eschatology / Detlef Linke
4. Subjective and Objective Hope: Propositional and Attitudinal Aspects of Eschatology / Fraser Watts
Pt. 2. Eschatology in the Cultural Sciences and Ethics: The Shaping of Eschatological Thought
Introduction: Cultural Perspectives on Eschatology / Larry D. Bouchard and William Schweiker
5. Cultural Cosmology and the Impact of the Natural Sciences on Philosophy and Culture / William R. Stoeger
6. Ends of Man and the Future of God / Janet Martin Soskice
7. Contingent Futures: Imagining the Ethics of Cosmology / Larry D. Bouchard
8. Church as a Cultural Space: Eschatology and Ecclesiology / Christoph Schwobel
9. Time as a Moral Space: Moral Cosmologies, Creation, and Last Judgement / William Schweiker
Pt. 3. Eschatology in the Biblical Traditions: Themes of the End-Time
Introduction: Reading the Bible with "the End" in View / Donald H. Juel and Patrick D. Miller
10. Faith at the Nullpunkt / Walter Brueggemann
11. Judgment and Joy / Patrick D. Miller
12. Christian Hope and the Denial of Death: Encountering New Testament Eschatology / Donald H. Juel
13. Hope and Creation / Hans Weder
Pt. 4. Eschatology in Theology and Spirituality: Hope and Eternal Life
Introduction: Realistic Eschatology / Michael Welker
14. Our Reasons for Hope / Gerhard Sauter
15. Eschatology without a Future? / Kathryn Tanner
16. Is There Life after Death? / Jurgen Moltmann
17. Enter into Joy! Sin, Death, and the Life of the World to Come / Miroslav Volf
18. Resurrection and Eternal Life: The Canonic Memory of the Resurrected Christ, His Reality, and His glory / Michael Welker
Appendix: Metaphor and Reality / Hans Weder.
