A critical study of Christian eschatology in the light of Marxist thought

摘要

This study explains the eschatology of the present in liberation terms. Chapter two looks at the Old Testament and New Testament eschatological elements. Chapter three explains that liberation theologians are using Marxism's social analysis for the pursuit of the New World. Chapter four explains that God's action in the course of history and Jesus Christ's deeds are means of liberating human being from economic, political and social oppression; therefore God the Creator and Jesus the Liberator are the content ofliberation eschatology. The fifth chapter explains that there is an interface between practise and theory. By putting our faith into action through revolution, love and struggle we can create a New World. In short, this study explains how liberation theologians close the gap between christian eschatology and the Marxist hope of Utopia by using the biblical message of liberation and Marxist social analysis, and find an eschatology of the present in liberation terms