Sentences with phrase «relational eschatology»

Thus, a strong existential - historical thrust results for a relational eschatology.

This raises two implications for a relational eschatology and the question of ultimate redress of injustice.

Not exact matches

Finally, and extending this emphasis to the present, relational thought encourages a working through of the typical view of eschatology.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

Process thinker Francis G. Baur has suggested that the concept of «thresholds» of change beyond which a phenomenon is new in ways that transcend and fulfill its antecedents, but does not cease thereby to be in process towards other previously unimaginable dimensions of being, might mediate at this point between biblical eschatology and process - relational cosmology.6 After all, the eschaton is the completion of God's will for this cosmic epoch, but it is not implied in scripture that there is no life beyond eschaton.

I should mention how ironic I found it that a title - search for material relating to eschatology in a process - relational mode yielded a plethora of titles dealing with the question of personal immortality, but a relative dearth of material dealing with the eschaton as a new corporate order.

Thus Whiteheadian process - relational philosophy has yielded an impressive harvest of theological speculation in the doctrinal areas of God, God's action in the world, Christology and, most recently, soteriology.1 Can process - relational thought function similarly in the area of Christian doctrine called «eschatology»?