Sentences with phrase «restored eschatology»

It is a merit of political theologians to have restored eschatology to the heart of Christian theology.

Historian Perry Miller, in Errand into the Wilderness (Harvard University Press, 1956), argues that the belief in impending world destruction has been paramount in the Christian West, and that Newtonian physics provoked a serious crisis by challenging that belief, Newton himself researched the Book of Revelation in hopes of restoring that eschatology.