The End of the World : Whatever Happened?, or Leftover Time to Kill
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The Journal of Bahá'í Studies 3, 49-66Abstract: When the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, announcing at once the end of the world and the birth of a new creation, is located in a 19th-century setting surrounded by the eschatology of Hegel at its beginning and the eschatology of Nietzsche at it end, the unique station of the Manifestation of God and the meaning of Revelation becomes clear. By contrasting the eschatology of Bahá'u'lláh with that of Hegel and Nietzsche, this article attempts to explore in the prophetic context of resurrection and return the spiritual origins of the planetary consciousness upon which the survival of humankind and the globe itself now depends. These topics will be explored primarily upon Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet that begins "The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen..."
When the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, announcing at once the end of the world and the birth of a new creation, is located in a 19th-century setting surrounded by the eschatology of Hegel at its beginning and the eschatology of Nietzsche at it end, the unique station of the Manifestation of God and the meaning of Revelation becomes clear. By contrasting the eschatology of Bahá'u'lláh with that of Hegel and Nietzsche, this article attempts to explore in the prophetic context of resurrection and return the spiritual origins of the planetary consciousness upon which the survival of humankind and the globe itself now depends. These topics will be explored primarily upon Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet that begins "The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen..."