An Eschatological Imagination

An Eschatological Imagination
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-13 : 1433102277
ISBN-10 : 9781433102271
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Download or read book An Eschatological Imagination written by John M. Shields and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, Christian eschatology, the doctrine about the final reality, became a storm center for Christian systematic theologians because of the rediscovery of the eschatological character of Jesus Christ. In the twenty-first century, Christian theologians continue to wrestle with the claims of Christian eschatology because of a postmodern suspicion of eschatological certainty claims about a future that is, after all, objectively unavailable, yet still of great human concern. Human beings live on hope for the future. An Eschatological Imagination recognizes the problem of the future for Christian eschatology. Building on the major theological writings of David Tracy, it offers a revised way of thinking and living eschatologically in the form of an eschatological imagination as a rhetoric of virtue, an exhortation to live in Christian hope in a postmodern world and into an objectively unavailable and uncertain future. Within such a rhetoric, hope becomes action - not mere sentiment - that seeks to create a Christian eschatological future.


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