Editor's Introduction
Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ch. 1: The Order and Movement of Eternity: Karl Barth on the
Eternity of God and Creaturely Time Tom Greggs, University of
Aberdeen, UK
Ch.2: 'You Are Good and Do Good': Some Remarks on Eternal Life and
the Goodness of God Christopher J. Holmes, University of Otago, New
Zealand
Ch.3: The Resonating Body in Triune Eternity
Markus Mühling, University of Lüneberg, Germany
Ch.4: Angels and Immortality
Don Wood, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ch.5: How New is New Creation? Resurrection and Creation Ex
Nihilo
Susannah Ticciati, King's College London, UK
Ch.6: Toward A Doctrine of Resurrection
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
Ch.7: The Enmity of Death and Judgement Unto Life
Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ch.8: Eucharist and Immortality: Reformed Reflections on the
Eschatological Dimension of the Sacrament
Paul Nimmo, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ch.9: 'The Incompleteness of the Completed': Eternal God, Eternal
Life, and the Eternal Life
Russel Re Manning, Bath Spa University, UK
Ch.10: Technological Immortalization and Original Mortality: Karl
Barth On the Celebration of Finitude
Robert Song, University of Durham, UK
Index
Advances Christian theological reflection on the matter of immortality and eternal life in critical conversation with both historic debates and contemporary developments in eschatological doctrine.
Philip G. Ziegler is Professor of Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Born and educated in Canada, he is a graduate of several of the constituent Colleges of the Toronto School of Theology. He has previously held posts at Princeton University, USA and the Atlantic School of Theology, Canada.
The contributions in this book ... offer robust reflections on a
theme that has received little attention in recent years ... They
represent a valuable and much-needed resource.
*Theology*
Theologians in recent times have avoided giving an account of
immortality so thank goodness we now have this book. In these fine
essays we learn to see why immortality must be Christologically
disciplined if we are to avoid needless speculations. Hopefully
this book will be widely read and studied.
*Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity
and Law, Duke University, USA*
Immortality is, properly speaking, a perfection of God alone. Yet
immortality is also 'brought to life' for creatures through the
gospel of God's saving action. What should theology say about the
nature of God's own eternal life, and about eternal life as God's
gift to creatures? What might it mean for human existence to be
defined - here and now - by the Christian hope of fellowship with
God beyond our present mortal bounds, and by the prospect of God's
ultimate transformation of all things temporal and physical? These
essays offer stimulating contributions to such questions. The work
of highly perceptive thinkers, they provide an orderly set of
studies on some of the essential ways in which eschatology must be
shaped by the doctrine of God; the authors also demonstrate how the
relationship between these areas of theology ought to be profoundly
determinative of Christian ethics and mission.
*Ivor Davidson, University of Aberdeen, UK*
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