Time, Eternity, and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity

Kim, Eunsoo

ISBN 10: 1606089684 / ISBN 13: 9781606089682

Published by Pickwick Publications, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time, Eternity, and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606089684
• ISBN 13: 9781606089682
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.