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Article: How will it all end? Eschatology in science and religion.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- March 22, 2007
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In retrospect, eschatology has been part of my theological agenda since I began to reflect on theology, some fifty years ago. I recently came upon the essays I wrote for admission to Rabbinical School back in the spring of 1954. To my amazement--I was then a rank undergraduate at McGill University--they were suffused with the issue of messianism. When I arrived at the Jewish Theological Seminary, one of my mentors, Professor Gerson Cohen later to become Chancellor of the Seminary, made an off-hand remark to the effect that every significant Jewish movement had an eschatological impulse at its core. That remark stuck with me and remained one of many issues that I wish I ...
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