Eschatology Reading Lists

— Friday, December 9th, 2011 —

This coming semester I’ll be teaching two courses on eschatology at Southern Seminary. Several folks beyond students at the seminary have asked me via email and Twitter what books I assign for these, so I decided I would post these reading lists for each of my courses here.

Doctoral Seminar

  • Alan F. Segal, Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion (Doubleday, 2004)
  • Charles E. Hill, Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity, 2nd ed. (Eerdmans, 2001)
  • Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (Catholic University of America, 2003)
  • N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, vol. 3, Christian Origins and the Question of God (Fortress, 2003)
  • Michael S. Horton, Covenant and Eschatology: Divine Drama (Westminster/John Knox, 2002)
  • Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1994)
  • Jürgen Moltmann, The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology, trans. Margaret Kohl (Fortress, 1996)

Masters-Level Course

Required Reading

  • Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994)
  • George Eldon Ladd, The Presence of the Future (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974)
  • C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (HarperOne, 2001)
  • Richard J. Mouw, When the Kings Come Marching In: Isaiah and the New Jerusalem (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002)
  • N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Hope of the Church (HarperOne, 2008)

Fiction (Students pick one of these to read)

  • Margaret Atwood, A Handmaid’s Tale (Anchor, 1998) [Feminist Apocalyptic]
  • Edward Abbey, Good News (Plume, 1980) [Secular Environmental Apocalyptic]
  • Timothy LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind: A Novel of Earth’s Last Days (Tyndale House, 1996) [Dispensational Evangelical Apocalyptic]
  • C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (HarperTrophy, 1994) [Mere Christian Apocalyptic]
  • Michael O’Brien, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Ignatius, 1998) [Roman Catholic Apocalyptic]
  • Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971) [Southern Literary Catholic Apocalyptic]

Recommended Reading

  • Gregory A. Boyd, God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997)
  • Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1992)
  • Robert G. Clouse, The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1977)
  • Brian E. Daley, The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Hendrickson, 2003)
  • Russell D. Moore, The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective (Wheaton: Crossway, 2004)
  • Jeffrey Burton Russell, Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Jerry L. Walls, Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy (Oxford University Press, 2002)

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10 Responses to “Eschatology Reading Lists”

  1. Trey December 9th, 2011 at 11:56 am

    Wait, Horton and Moltmann in a *doctoral* seminar but not Vos or Ridderbos? How is that possible?

  2. Jonathan Pearson December 9th, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    Thank you for posting this list. I appreciate you doing it.

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  4. Dan Phillips December 11th, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Hm. Boyd, Wright, Mouw, Moltmann… but no Vlach, Horner, Fruchtenbaum, Hitchcock, Feinberg, or even Bock or Saucy. Yikes.

  5. Zack December 12th, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Thank you, Dr. Moore, for posting this. For what it’s worth, I, for one, would greatly appreciate you posting all your reading lists, particularly for your ethics courses.

  6. Andrew Lindsey December 13th, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    DP:
    They can choose to read Left Behind!

  7. Dan Phillips December 14th, 2011 at 9:24 am

    Right. Like teaching an evangelical course on Roman Catholicism requiring a reading of the writings of Beckwith and “Mother” Teresa and Budziszewski and all, but referencing Chick tracts for the other viewpoint. That’s “balance” for you.

    :^P

  8. Justin Lonas December 14th, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Sometimes I wonder if anyone else in the world has read Percy, especially Love in the Ruins. Such an interesting book. Thanks for brightening my day simply by including it.

    Out of curiosity, what are some of the reactions you get from students who choose to read that one?

  9. Andrew Lindsey December 16th, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    DP:

    More seriously, Dean Moore is aware of what his students have read in their other classes, and some of the authors you mentioned are read in those classes (I did not have the opportunity to take Eschatology, but had to read both Feinberg and Bock for other classes myself).

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