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SOPHIA (2011) 50:503504
DOI 10.1007/s11841-011-0252-6
Review of Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet and the Now, edited by Neal DeRoo and John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Ashgate, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-6701-8, 228 pp.
James M. McLachlan
Published online: 21 May 2011# Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
The editors admit it isnt evident why one should attempt a book on eschatology and phenomenology. Manoussakis writes The association between eschatology and phenomenology might seem strange to the reader: what does the theology of the things-to-come have in common with the philosophy of the things-themselves?(83). Anyway, What does . . . Freiburg have to do with Patmos? (2). Eschatology and phenomenology, while structurally similar, would seem to have little to do with each other except for a shared period of intellectual popularity (and that not even in the same discipline) (5). Contemporary eschatologies require a notion of time that might take seriously the already but not yet character of contemporary eschatological expectation. This is also an element of phenomenological description. In this respect the essays that make up the book argue that the disciplines of eschatology and phenomenology overlap in a fundamental and meaningful way(11). The questions of temporality, ontology, ethics, and sacramentality point to this fruitful overlap.
The book is divided into four sections and an appendix: Phenomenology of Eschatology, which includes Jean-Yves Lacoste on The Phenomenality of Anticipation...