This volume complements a previous volume of translated essays by the Dutch theologian Arnold van Ruler (1908-1970), published by Wipf & Stock, namely This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold van Ruler for Ecotheology (2023). It offers a translation of eighteen essays on eschatology in Arnold van Ruler's Verzameld Werk Deel 5C. These essays are included in chronological order under four rubrics, namely a) Law and Kingdom of God, b) The millennium, c) Life and death, and d) Later texts on eschatology. The volume includes an introduction by the Dutch editor Dirk van Keulen and an editor's afterword on the promise of Van Ruler's eschatology for contemporary ecotheology.

Arnold A. van Ruler (1908-1970) was a major Dutch Reformed systematic theologian, based at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.



Ernst M. Conradie (1962-) is Senior Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He is the series editor of a series of twelve envisaged edited volumes in the field of Christian ecotheology, entitled An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the "Anthropocene".