Eschatology after Nietzsche: Apollonian, Dionysian or Pauline?
Ancient and (post)modern versions of the Greek two-world metaphysics - in both its Platonic (Apollonian) and Hegelian (Dionysian) variations - are explored and contrasted with the Pauline two-age eschatology. This eschatology is shown to be further removed from and more subversive of the metaphysica...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell
2000
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2000, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-62 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
/ Eschatology
/ Protestant theology
B Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900 / Moltmann, Jürgen 1926-2024, Theologie der Hoffnung |
IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBQ Eschatology VA Philosophy |
Summary: | Ancient and (post)modern versions of the Greek two-world metaphysics - in both its Platonic (Apollonian) and Hegelian (Dionysian) variations - are explored and contrasted with the Pauline two-age eschatology. This eschatology is shown to be further removed from and more subversive of the metaphysical and epistemological dualisms of modernity than is postmodernism. Reformed federal theology and its biblical theology movement provide a resource for the recovery of the christological and eschatological tension in Pauline theology, enabling Christian theology to reintegrate revelation within the history of redemption and to articulate an eschatology of the pilgrim community. |
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ISSN: | 1463-1652 |
Contains: | In: International journal of systematic theology
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