About the author: The Rev. Dr. Ted Peters is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Professor of Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. As a research scholar he is affiliated with the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS). He is editor of the journal Dialog, and author of numerous works in theology, including God-the World's Future (1992), Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom (1996), Science, Theology, and Ethics (2002), and Evolution from Creation to New Creation (2003).

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Contents
Foreword by Ed Lindaman
Preface
1. Toward the Year 2000
   Future Consciousness
   Elements in Future Consciousness
   Futurology and Eschatology
   Values and Eschatology
2. Millennialist and Apocalyptic Perspectives
   Millennialism
   Apocalypticism
   Outlook on the Future
3. Christ: The Future Made Present
   The Resurrection
   Can We Still Believe In Easter?
   Living the Future Resurrection Now
4. Hope in the Future
   Dissatisfaction with the Present
   Progress and the New Humanity
   Hope for the Future
5. Time and History
   Is Time Running Out?
   Cyclical Time Versus Historical Time
   Hope and Meaning
6. Values for a Planetary Society
   Trade-Offs for an Eco-Human Future
   Toward a Planetary Society
   The Value Vacuum
7. The Humanist Alternative
   A Humanized Future?
   In Search of a Ground for Values
8. Toward a Proleptic Theology of the Future
    Values, Ontology, and the Future
    Ontology and the Kingdom of God
   God is Not Yet God
9. Concluding Nonscientific Prescript
   Sedative or Stimulus?
   Tomorrow's Reality and Today's Action? 
Index 
About the Author

"Ted Peters shows how a cross-pollination of the Christian and secular vision of the future world can bring about a broader application of Christian faith. He has given theology a new boost by coming to grips with profound aspects of modern experience." -Carl E. Braaten

"Dr. Peters presents a critical examination of secular futurology from the perspective of Christian theology." -Wolfhart Pannenberg