Eunsoo Kim

Time, Eternity, and the Trinity (eBook, ePUB)

A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the vital issues in contemporary Christian theology is the problem of a renewed understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time. This is not merely a peripheral doctrinal issue, but lies at the heart of our understanding of God and humanity, and contributes to our entire worldview. This study focuses on a long-standing debate between two competing views on God's eternity: one focused on God's absolute timelessness in classical theism, and the other on God's temporal everlastingness in contemporary panentheism. In contrast to both of these well-worn options, this book presents an alternative Trinitarian analogical understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time, especially through a critical reflection on Karl Barth's and Hans Urs von Balthasar's engagement of the issue. This analogical approach, based on the dynamic and dramatic concepts of God's being-in-relation and of the Triune God's communicative action in eternity and time, has the potential to resolve the debate between absolute timeless eternity and temporal everlasting duration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630876616
• Artikelnr.: 55270337

Autorenporträt

Eunsoo Kim is Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology at Soongsil University Graduate School of Christian Studies in Seoul, South Korea, and the president of Korea Theological Interdisciplinary Studies.