Apocalyptic Imagination News Today

In the new episode of the YDS Quadcast, Professor John Collins, author of the book The Apocalyptic Imagination, discusses what the Bible really says about the end of the world; what caused the rise of apocalyptic literature; and how some Christians err today in their understanding of end times.

John W. Martens is an associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn,where he teaches early Christianity and Judaism. He also directs the Master of Arts in Theology program at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity. He was born in Vancouver, B.C. into a Mennonite family that had decided to confront modernity in an urban setting. His post-secondary education began at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, came to an abrupt stop, then started again at Vancouver Comm...

In Romans 9–11 the Apostle Paul claims that many from Israel have become hard hearted, rejecting the gospel about their Messiah, Jesus Christ. At the same, many gentiles have believed this message. In Romans 11:25–26, we learn that Israel’s hardening is only temporary. Once the “fullness” of the gentiles comes in (i.e., they get saved), “all Israel” will be saved.

Readers of A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World, John Jeffries Martin’s arresting and wide-ranging new study of apocalypticism in the early modern period, will learn all kinds of new things about the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.