Endtime: The Doomsday Catalog: What Writers and Illustrators Say About Living and Dying in, with Selections on Rapture, Tribulation, Millenium, Judgement, Heaven, Hell

ENDTIME answers the questions most often asked by believers but rarely treated seriousy by professional eschatologists: * Are we born dying, or is the day we die our real birthday? * Have Christians died waiting patiently, holily, for the end that never came? * Will the final trump be a fickle kazoo or a sonic boom? * Will the tall be short and the thin fat at the resurection of the body? * Will Armageddon really pit Christ the warrior-knight against the nuclear-armed, jet powered force of Antichrist? * Who will be invited when Christ marries his Church? * At the great assize, the general reckoning, the great white throne judgment, will we really be judged by love? * Is fear of hell healthy, or is it neurotic? * Will people throw parties in heaven? * And what about animals in the afterlife? The Christians invited to participate in ENDTIME find they have much to talk about and much more to share. Baptists, Methodists, Quakers and Catholics, Luterans and Evangelicals - the published works of all of them contribute to our knowledge of the endthings. The authors of ENDTIME are, to use Thomas R. Kelly's words, "a holy fellowship, a blesed community." Ornamenting the selections are illustrations spanning sixteen centuries: bas reliefs, sculptures, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, drawings, calligraphy, cartoons, photographs, and movie stills. The happy result is ENDTIME: mere Christianity but with pictures and conversations. --- from book's back cover