My latest on eschatology and work is up at TGR:

In C.S. Lewis’ allegorical novel The Pilgrim’s Regress, Mr. Savage sneers at the inhabitants of Claptrap (who represent respectable, bourgeois Enlightenment society) because they spend their whole lives working and building, even though they all die in the end, thereby losing everything they worked to build.

“They might be buiding for posterity,” objects Mr. Virtue.

“And whom will posterity build for?” snorts Mr. Savage. “Can’t they see that it all comes to nothing?”

Eschatological continuity gives us something to work for; eschatological discontinuity is the only thing that can make life liveable while we wait for the full coming of the kingdom in whose anticipation we work.

Would love to hear what you think!