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Eschatology After Nietzsche: Apollonian, Dionysian or Pauline?
Author(s) -
Horton Michael
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/1463-1652.00026
Subject(s) - eschatology , philosophy , metaphysics , revelation , modernity , hegelianism , theology , postmodernism , literature , epistemology , art
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.