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Icons of Hope - The "Last Things" in Catholic Imagination (Paperback)
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Icons of Hope - The "Last Things" in Catholic Imagination (Paperback)
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In Icons of Hope: The "Last Things" in Catholic Imagination, John
Thiel, one of the most influential Catholic theologians today,
argues that modern theologians have been unduly reticent in their
writing about "last things": death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
Beholden to a historical-critical standard of interpretation, they
often have been reluctant to engage in eschatological reflection
that takes the doctrine of the "last things" seriously as real
events that Christians are obliged to imagine meaningfully and to
describe with some measure of faithful coherence. Modern theology's
religious pluralism leaves room for a speculative style of
interpretation that issues in icons of hope-theological portraits
of resurrected life that can inform and inspire the life of faith.
Icons of Hope presents an interpretation of heavenly life, the Last
Judgment, and the communion of the saints that is shaped by a view
of the activity of the blessed dead consistent with Christian
belief in the resurrection of the body, namely, the view that the
blessed dead in heaven continue to be eschatologically engaged in
the redemptive task of forgiveness. Thiel offers a revision of the
traditional Catholic imaginary regarding judgment and life after
death that highlights the virtuous actions of all the saints in
their heavenly response to the vision of God. These constructive
efforts are fostered by Thiel's conclusions on the disappearance of
the concept of purgatory in large segments of contemporary Catholic
belief, a disappearance attributable to the emergence of a
noncompetitive spirituality in postconciliar Catholicism, which has
eclipsed the kinds of religious sensibilities that made belief in
purgatory a practice in earlier centuries. This noncompetitive
spirituality-one that recovers traditional Pauline sensibilities on
the gratuitousness of grace-encourages an eschatological imaginary
of mutual, ongoing forgiveness in the communion of the saints in
this life and in the life to come.
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