Facing the End: Why it is not crazy to believe the Second Coming is imminent

The end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, followed by the Last Judgement, are not a popular subject, particularly among those who have little time for religion anyway. Like Christianity itself, mention of it often meets with ridicule, at best apathy. Religious enthusiasts (or some of them) have, after all, been declaring the End to be imminent for the past two thousand years.

But the issues, the dilemmas, which the world currently faces are of a particularly intractable nature. Do they signify that the human race is nearing the end of its viability as a species, within the Earthly context, in the culmination of an inevitable historical process; and that it is time to be open-minded about the claims of the Bible, about things we may have previously dismissed as irrelevant, quirky or offensive?

In Rediscovering God Guy Blythman set out to show that religious belief was neither incompatible with science nor in some way morally wrong. Now he is exploring the ultimate consequences of that, in a book which may not be comfortable reading yet whose arguments, he believes, cannot be dismissed out of hand. Meet the challenge it presents, if you dare.

Guy Blythman is the author of Rediscovering God and Philosophy: A View From The Edge.