We are to live in the eschatological hope of the full recapitulation of all things. . . . No matter how effectively the powers of evil now rage, they are doomed. Evil is not ultimate. Evil is not the final word in human existence. The final word is Jesus Christ. The vision of new heavens and a new earth is no fantasy. It is the reality, the truth. Therefore, it is the hope that lies behind everything we do as Christians.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 60.