Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination by Thomas P. Rausch

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
David W. Fagerberg
Keyword(s):  
Eschatological Imagination

A Trauma-Ridden Body Lifted High: Eschatological Imagination in a Public Square

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-593
Author(s):  
Hee-Kyu Heidi Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Public Demonstrations ◽  
Eschatological Imagination

Abstract Public demonstrations shed much meaning when the precarity of the human body’s standing in the public space is considered. This article seeks to decipher the complex messages such instances communicate through a case study of a one-person protest against a multinational conglomerate on a CCTV pole in Seoul. It describes how the body’s precarity generates transformative social imaginations through interdisciplinary analysis. Starting with a thick description of the protester’s and his community’s history, this article interprets the message conveyed in this particular public space through interdisciplinary analysis. The resulting interpretation allows the formation of an eschatological theological imagination which brews with the possibility to transform the public onlooker into participants in such imagination.

Doxological Reading and Eschatological Imagination

Liturgy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Michael Pasquarello
Keyword(s):  
Eschatological Imagination

Turning the World Upside Down in 1 Corinthians 15: Apocalyptic Epistemology, the Resurrected Body and the New Creation

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Andrew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Corinthians 2 ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
New Creation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Eschatological Imagination

This article shows how Paul’s apocalyptic epistemology in 1 Corinthians 2 relates to an issue of ontology that arises in 1 Corinthians 15 (i.e., the nature of the resurrected body). Using the psychikon/pneumatikon terminology in both contexts, Paul’s rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 15 turns the cosmological hierarchy held to by ‘some’ in his audience upside down. Paul argues that the fleshly human body, rather than being at the bottom of a cosmological hierarchy with no place in the afterlife, will be elevated by God to the level of what will be redeemed/transformed in the new creation. This, in turn, suggests a definite material continuity between ‘this age’ and the new creation and that the discontinuity between them does not have to do with fleshly existence per se, but rather with how Sin has corrupted our current fleshly existence. The article concludes by suggesting that Paul’s rhetoric in this chapter ought to shape our contemporary eschatological imagination in a particular way. It should compel us not only to imagine the redemption of the material composing our body at death, but also the redemption of our body’s unfolding history along with the unfolding history of the cosmos.

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