ABSTRACT
This chapter responds to feminist theological critiques surrounding the content of eschatology, and also emerges out the reconstructions of the eschatological process. The affirmation of qualities associated with female bodies, and some women's experiences of these qualities, coupled with God's love for and loyalty to them forms the basis of an eschatological model of the distinct but interactive categories of affirmation, contradiction, and construction. The association of female bodies with change has been used to justify the treatment of female bodies as suspect, troublesome, and fearful. An eschatology which contradicts death can be constructed firstly by attending to past and present experiences of oppression, suffering, and death. Transformation in the eschatological future can mean that bodies retain their particularities even as they are enabled to become more, to endure eternally. Death prevents creation's full, final, and enduring experience of relationships with God.
