October 16-18, 2003

University of Saint Mary of the Lake
Mundelein, Illinois

Ours is an anxious time, with talk of "clashes" of civilizations and orthodoxies, dirty bombs and killer viruses, coming economic depressions, and violent movements all around the world dedicated to destroying modern societies. Even sober scholars write books on the end of western civilization. Apocalyptic books are selling tens of millions of copies and apocalyptic movements are growing within all the churches.

But are we really in "the last days"? What should we think about the Second Coming of Christ? The Book of Revelation? What does it mean that Christ "shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead"? Ours is not the first generation to have "apocalyptic anxieties." Join the editors of Touchstone and an ecumenical array of guest speakers as we seek the answer to anxiety in the wisdom of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox believers of the past and present.

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Schedule, Location, Lodging, and Meals

Speakers and Topics:

The American Evangelical Apocalypse
Premillennialism & Literal Biblical Interpretation
Craig Blaising
Dean, School of Theology
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

His Coming in Consuming Glory
The Apocalypse in Orthodox Tradition
Vigen Guroian
Professor of Theology and Ethics
Loyola College in Maryland

The Spirit of Antichrist
The Coming Universal Spiritual Order
James Hitchcock
Professor of History, St. Louis University
& Senior Editor, Touchstone

The Return of the Lord or the End of the World?
The Divided Frames of Apocalyptic Expectation
S. M. Hutchens
Senior Editor, Touchstone

Apocalypse Trivial
Frivolity at the World’s End
Alan Jacobs
Professor of English, Wheaton College

Rewriting the Future
A New Catholic Scenerio for the End Times
Sandra Miesel
Catholic journalist, author and editor of speculative fiction

Apocalypse Then & Now
Medieval & Modern Imaginings of the Apocalypse
Leon J. Podles
Author of The Church Impotent
& Senior Editor, Touchstone

Elijah Who Is to Come
The Apocalypse in Biblical Perspective
Patrick Henry Reardon
Pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church
& Senior Editor, Touchstone

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