Interreligious hospitality: Reflections on death and eschatology

Is there an interreligious potential in the way we approach death and eschatology? Christian eschatology often suggests a unity that puts an end to religious otherness. It is difficult to find explicit, appreciative statements of any kind of otherness in many eschatologies. Given this situation, how...

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Main Author: Wirén, Jakob 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Dialog
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 271-278
IxTheo Classification:CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
NBQ Eschatology
Further subjects:B Hospitality
B religious other
B heavenly banquet
B Death
B theology of religions
B Eschatology
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Summary:Is there an interreligious potential in the way we approach death and eschatology? Christian eschatology often suggests a unity that puts an end to religious otherness. It is difficult to find explicit, appreciative statements of any kind of otherness in many eschatologies. Given this situation, how can a Christian eschatology articulate hospitality and room for the religious Other as other? And what potential is there in the eschatological image of heavenly banquet?
ISSN:1540-6385
Contains:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/dial.12435