Great quote from John Dominic Crossan in The Historical Jesus: Five Views (IVP: 2009):
Eschatology is not about the destruction of the earth but about its transfiguration, not about the end of the world but about the end of evil, injustice, violence – and imperialism. I think of the eschaton as the Great Divine Clean-Up of the World. It is clear, I hope, that the kingdom of God is 100 percent political and 100 percent religious all together and inextricably intertwined at the same time. It is ultimately about who owns this world and how, therefore, it should be run (p. 109).
