Decreation () von Paul J. Griffiths

Preface and Acknowledgements

Part I: The Grammar of the Last Things

1 Lexicon

2 Last Things Defined

3 Annihilation: The First Last Thing

4 Simple Stasis: The Second Last Thing

5 Repetitive Stasis: The Third Last Thing

6 Epektasy: Denying Last Things

7 Iconicity: Representing Last Things

Part II: Doctrine About Last Things

8 Theology and Last Things

9 Doctrine and Last Things

10 The Doctrinal Schema

11 The Narrative Arc

12 Patterns of Thought

Part III: Timespace

13 The Lord’s Eternity

14 The Chronic Temporality of Creatures

15 Time Damaged: Metronome

16 Time Healed: Liturgy, Systole, Fold

Part IV: Angels

17 Thinking About Angels

18 What Angels Are

19 Angelic Fall

20 Angelic Last Things

Part V: Humans

21 Human Flesh

22 The Discarnate Intermediate State

23 Human Last Things (1): Annihilation

24 Human Last Things (2): Heaven

25 Hell Reconstrued

26 The Church’s Last Thing

Part VI: Plants, Animals, Inanimate Creatures

27 Plants and Animals

28 The Last Things of Plants and Animals

29 Inanimate Creatures

30 The Last Things of Inanimate Creatures

Part VII: The Last Things in the Devastation

31 Opus Domini

32 Trembling

33 Delight

34 Lament

35 Quietus

Part VIII: Bibliography

36 Bibliographic Essays

37 Bibliographic List