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THE QUESTION
End of the World
Do you believe the world will come to an end? If so, where, when and what will it look like?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on March 27, 2007 2:57 PM
FROM THE PANEL
The Question Is Not If the World Will End, But How?
The Jewish Sages have taught that humanity has a choice.
Posted by Adin Steinsaltz, on March 26, 2007 9:57 AM
End of the World or End of Time?
Belief in the Earth's end and a divine reckoning with humanity don't necessarily cancel each other out.
Posted by Gustav Niebuhr, on March 26, 2007 8:05 AM
The End is a-Comin'
It has always given me comfort that the Qur’an acknowledges that Judgment Day is hard for humanity to accept.
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on March 26, 2007 7:40 AM
Apocalyse Now
The idea that human beings can predict when, where and how the world will end is arrogant and unfaithful.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on March 25, 2007 10:20 AM
Who's Afraid of the End of the World?
One person's "truth claim" is another's page in a textbook of clinical psychological disorders, and belief in the Rapture end-of-the-world scenario offers an excellent example of the latter.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on March 25, 2007 9:52 AM
Before and After
The world is a beautiful and wondrous place. To think of the ultimateness of its end requires a fearsome act of imagination.
Posted by James Anderson, on March 23, 2007 10:51 AM
"The World" Means What?
The idea that “the end of the world” is the consummation of a divine plan for the earth is due to a bad translation in the King James Version of the Bible.
Posted by John Dominic Crossan, on March 23, 2007 9:37 AM
At World's End, Restoration and Judgment
Not to believe that there will be a time for the reckoning of all accounts, for the consummation of history as we know it, is not to believe in a just God.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on March 23, 2007 8:40 AM
Not Even "The Angels" Know
The idea that we are living in the latter period of the world’s history is a repeated theme in Mormon doctrine.
Posted by Michael Otterson, on March 23, 2007 7:16 AM
We've Got the Whole World In Our Hands
I’ve wondered if the phenomenon of global warming will bring on the kind of apocalypticism described in the book of Revelation.
Posted by Randall Balmer, on March 22, 2007 10:36 AM
Not With a Bang but a Whimper
Which position I favor varies from day to day depending on my own psyche and what I read in the morning newspaper.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on March 22, 2007 9:53 AM
World Without End, Amen
The "world" will not end. It will be transformed, even re-created.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on March 22, 2007 8:09 AM
Entropy, Apocalypse and All That Jazz
I see no harm in adding a touch of religious imagery to science.
Posted by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, on March 22, 2007 7:37 AM
Focus on the Here, Not the Hereafter
We had better do as well as we can, and behave as morally and ethically as we can, and not worry about the end of the world.
Posted by Julia Neuberger, on March 21, 2007 8:43 AM
Read the Book; You'll Know How it Ends
The idea that to get salvation you need to go to heaven -- rather than that salvation is a gift which comes from heaven to embrace earth -- results in misreadings of key texts.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on March 21, 2007 7:39 AM
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