The individualization and privatization of religion means that the great questions of the future and thus the universal eschatology are pushed into the background. It is all the more important to rethink the relationship between eschatology and history - universal history as well as individual life stories - as well as the relationship between eschatology and ecclesiology. Specifically, it is about the question of the future of Christianity and the future of the Church (s). With contributions by Matthias Dreher, Jan Hermelink, Lucian Hölscher, Ulrich H.J. Körtner, Dietz Lange, Andreas Lindemann, Folkart Wittekind.