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Eternity and the Future: A Critique of the Plotinian Myth in Pannenberg’s Theology
Author(s) -
Lee Sang Hoon
Publication year - 2020
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/ijst.12409
Subject(s) - eternity , mythology , philosophy , causation , infinity , theology , epistemology , point (geometry) , mathematics , mathematical analysis , geometry
For Pannenberg, the eschatological future is considered as the locus where the ultimate causation lies. Such an idea shapes Pannenberg’s doctrinal accounts of Christ and the Trinity in an idiosyncratic way. However, as this article will indicate, the idea is derived from the Plotinian myth that time can become a whole and so a vessel of divine infinity when it reaches the End. Dispensing with the faulty assumption but retaining the concept of the priority of the future, this article will argue that divine eternity as the totality can engage with history directly at any point of time, without a detour via the eschaton.

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