Consummation
The Promise of Arnold A. van Ruler’s Eschatology
- Theology
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
This volume complements a previous volume of translated essays by the Dutch theologian Arnold van Ruler (1908-1970), published by Wipf & Stock, namely This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold van Ruler for Ecotheology (2023). It offers a translation of eighteen essays on eschatology in Arnold van Ruler's Verzameld Werk Deel 5C. These essays are included in chronological order under four rubrics, namely a) Law and Kingdom of God, b) The millennium, c) Life and death, and d) Later texts on eschatology. The volume includes an introduction by the Dutch editor Dirk van Keulen and an editor's afterword on the promise of Van Ruler's eschatology for contemporary ecotheology.
Endorsements (2)
“This fascinating collection of van Ruler’s essays on eschatology is very timely. It becomes available in an escapist era—believers of all stripes looking away from the world’s structural sorrows, e.g. climate change, by taking refuge in an imagined future paradise. Van Ruler argues that—Christianly speaking—the eschaton is nothing else than this earthly, historical existence fulfilled and redeemed. Consummation, aptly contextualized by Ernst Conradie, excellently elaborates and illustrates this point of view.”
“A beautiful collection. Van Ruler’s words of ‘breathless enthusiasm’ still resonate today, helped by excellent translation, introductions, and a thoughtful afterword. His ‘eschatological notes’—on law and life and future—still surprise, fascinate, and delight. Perhaps it is the strangeness, perhaps his way with words, perhaps his thought-provoking sense of eschatology? After all, he understood that when Kuyper on his deathbed ‘retained a measureless interest in the world’ it was a sign of his piety!”
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