Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time 1st Edition

Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780268205232,026820523X,9780268205225, 0268205221

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• ISBN-10: 0268205221
• ISBN-13: 9780268205225
• Author: John E. Thiel

Building on the insights of the ressourcement theology of grace, this sophisticated theological aesthetics offers a fresh vision of the doctrine of creation through a consideration of the beauty of time. Conventional eschatological accounts of life after death tend to emphasize the discontinuity between earthly life and the hereafter: whereas this life is subject to the contingencies of time, life after death is characterized by a stolid eternity. In contrast to this standard view, John E. Thiel’s Now and Forever articulates a Catholic eschatology in which earthly life and heavenly life are seen as gracefully continuous. This account offers a reconceptualization of time, which, Thiel argues, is best understood as the sacramental medium of God’s grace to creation. Thiel’s project thus attempts to rescue time from its Platonically negative resonance in the doctrine of creation. Rather than viewing time as the ambiance of sinful dissolution, Thiel argues for a Christian vision of time’s beauty, and so explicitly develops an aesthetics that views time as a creaturely reflection of God’s own Trinitarian life.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Eschatology, Time, and the Continuity of Grace
Chapter 2 The Virtues in Time: An Eschatological Anthropology
Chapter 3 Toward a Theology of Events in Time
Chapter 4 Tragic Time in an Eschatological Aesthetic
Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Tradition and the Styles of Theology
Chapter 6 Forever and a Day: Resurrected Time in a Heavenly Imaginary

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