The main trends in Christianity Nurqobilov Shahzod

vision of personal, historical, cosmic and divine eschatology deserves careful study.

Accepting the radical eschatological nature of the Christian faith does have many

Accepting the radical eschatological nature of the Christian faith does have many

ramifications. Being as such is no longer protologically oriented, but eschatologi-

cally open to ever new possibilities.4

The entire architectural structure of System-

atic Theology should be re-envisioned; eschatology is no longer an appendix, but

the optic viewing all dimensions of the Christian faith. This is quite innovatively implemented in the new work by Yong (2014); eschatology is discussed as the first

‘doctrine’ of the Christian faith.

2 Prioritising a hermeneutical approach

2 Prioritising a hermeneutical approach

It was unavoidable that two major intellectual ‘turns’ of the twentieth century – to es-

chatology and to hermeneutics – would intersect at some stage. The very nature of the