Cobb Ch 9

Most people whether they know or not, have some type of eschatology.  It doesn’t matter how underdeveloped or separated from any particular religious tradition it is.  Everyone has an idea of what will happen in the end.  We all think about what’s on the “other side.”  Some ideas of what will be are extremely bleak, others a bit more hopeful.  Herein lies one of the most beautiful aspects of the good news that we as Christians can communicate through culture.  That aspect is this, in Christ we have a clear hope of what will be.  That hope has already come.  The future has broken into our past through the ressurrection of Christ.  In many ways, what will be, has already been.