Toward a constructive eschatology: An appraisal of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen's contributions

Faced with diverse cultural challenges to hope, a constructive eschatology should do justice to the entire reality and develop a robust future-oriented hope that helps to transform the present. In this regard Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen has made a significant contribution, especially in dialogue with natu...

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Main Author: Kim, Junghyung (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Dialog
Year: 2020, Volume: 59, Issue: 4, Pages: 348-351
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
NBQ Eschatology
Further subjects:B Bodily Resurrection
B Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
B constructive eschatology
B lived body
B temporal holism
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Summary:Faced with diverse cultural challenges to hope, a constructive eschatology should do justice to the entire reality and develop a robust future-oriented hope that helps to transform the present. In this regard Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen has made a significant contribution, especially in dialogue with natural sciences and other faith traditions, to retrieve the cosmic dimension of Christian hope, as well as to address liberationist and ecofeminist critiques of some distorted hopes. After recommending distinctive features of Kärkkäinen's constructive proposal, I suggest advancing it further by combining the phenomenological insight into the lived body with the concept of temporal holism.
ISSN:1540-6385
Contains:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/dial.12608