Pannenberg, Particularity and Eschatology: Shifting the Debate: Pannenberg, Particularity and Eschatology
Wolfhart Pannenberg's account of the eschatological transition in his Systematic Theology describes how human beings are transformed by passing through a purifying fire that destroys whatever in them is incompatible with the life of God. I argue that this representation of human transformation...
| Published in: | International journal of systematic theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-211 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology NBQ Eschatology |
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| Summary: | Wolfhart Pannenberg's account of the eschatological transition in his Systematic Theology describes how human beings are transformed by passing through a purifying fire that destroys whatever in them is incompatible with the life of God. I argue that this representation of human transformation renders individual existence too discontinuous between life as it now is and the life to come, makes redeemed interhuman sociality unimportant, and transforms access to salvation for non-Christians into a matter of works. As a result, Pannenberg cannot preserve the kind of particularity he needs for his own theological aims: ensuring the significance of history, affirming finitude and developing a non-oppositional understanding of the relation between the finite and the infinite. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12101 |