Our sense of the "last things" must be tethered to Christ, who is present in the church and is the basis of hope.
THE APOSTLES' CREED ends with a statement of Christian belief in "the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting." The second article of the Nicene Creed states that Jesus Christ "will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end." Eschatology, from the Greek word eschata, meaning "last things," is the technical word ...