\u201cOf the three late modern trajectories,\u201d LeRon Shults concludes at the end of chp 7 of Reforming the Doctrine of God<\/em>, \u201cthe renewal of eschatological ontology may be the most difficult to understand for many Western readers.\u201d Indeed. And this is how he defines \u201ceschatological ontology\u201d: \u201cOf the three late modern trajectories,\u201d LeRon Shults concludes at the end of chp 7 of Reforming the Doctrine of God, \u201cthe renewal of eschatological ontology may be the most difficult to understand for many Western readers.\u201d Indeed. And this is how he defines \u201ceschatological ontology\u201d:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nIt is the \u201cmetaphysical claim that in some sense creaturely being <\/em>is constituted by the coming <\/em>of God\u201d (166).
\nOnce again these three trajectories are to see that infinity is intensive<\/em>, Trinity is robust<\/em>, and futurity is absolute<\/em>.
\nSo, in chp 7, Shults shows that a major trend in contemporary theology is to understand ontology (being) by examining eschatology (the coming and \u201cfuture\u201d of God). God\u2019s futurity is the \u201corigin,condition, and goal of all creaturely temporality and causality\u201d (167). All things are oriented to God.
\nOnce again, he explores the development of this trajectory: orthodoxy, Luther, Calvin, Barth, Gunton, Moltmann, Jenson, Jungel [don\u2019t know how to make the umlaut in WordPress \u2014 anyone know?], Pannenberg, Rahner, Zizioulias, feminists and liberationists.
\nConclusion: \u201cthen we may think of the presence of God in relation to the world as the gracious liberation of creation in and to the possibility of sharing the eternal life of the trinitarian persons\u201d (200). That means that \u201ceschatological transformation [is] the eternal intensification of the human desire to know, love and belong in fellowship with God and neighbor\u201d (201).
\nAbsolute futurity then is \u201crelationality of the shared life of the trinitarian persons\u201d (201).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"