I finishing up my last paper of the semester, writing about the Italian movie L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) and how the paranoia of the closing montage is fed by the present (for the 1960s) fear that people could destroy the whole world.

Since the world began it was God's to destroy, apocalypse meant that God would be bringing the world to an end for a purpose: judgment, the kingdom, joy, a feast, no more crying, eternity, etc. There are lots of perspectives on the end of the world, but the big picture is that it means God is doing something new or in full---bringing the world to rights as N.T. Wright describes it. ... more