Moltmann's view of the
eschaton is not so much apocalyptic as teleological, allowing it to be viewed "no longer as the catastrophic end of the world, but as a moral and political ideal which human beings can approach by working unremittingly on themselves and the world" (Coming of God 186).
As in better-known writings, he makes some epigrammatic affirmations: "Belief in eschatology without belief in a literal
eschaton is like belief in religion without belief in God" (p.
Consequently, before the
eschaton or end of days, God does not desire Jews to become Christians.
Partial and imperfect realizations of the
eschaton, the final age of fulfillment, would have to suffice.
Alice Walker's vision may be called eschatological not only because it is hopeful enough to prescribe new ways of being and relating but also because it embraces that element of
eschaton which we term "consummation.
If the
eschaton is to be launched over time and within the world's expanse, where will it start, how will specific signs be recognized and reliable news obtained?
Even on this side of that
eschaton, there is a future for love, because God is .
4) This article will sketch the pneumatological foundations of such missiological discourse by tracing the implications of the doctrine of the Spirit for theology of mission, in relationship to the doctrines of creation, redemption, and the
eschaton.
15) In Matt 24:35-39, Jesus makes a similar comparison between Noah and his era and the Son of Man and the
eschaton.
He also ultimately rejects the evolutionary theology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin because of, among other things, Teilhard's notion that God uses "evolutionary centration" to bring about a convergence upon a glorious, God-centered
eschaton, rather than the biblical means of "the mighty redeeming act of God inaugurated in the Cross of Christ.
A Provisional Approach: Pannenberg on Truth in the
EschatonInstead, it exploits the
eschaton on behalf of us today and so resembles Catholicism with its regard for creation and the time being.
eschaton - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives