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Now and Forever - A Theological Aesthetics of Time (Hardcover)
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Now and Forever - A Theological Aesthetics of Time (Hardcover)
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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. This thesis proceeds from the assumption that all
time is eschatological time and is thus guided by attention to the
temporality implicit in the virtue of hope, with its orientation
toward a fulfilled future that culminates in resurrected life. This
interpretation of the beauty of eschatological time in its widest
expanse presses further the insight of ressourcement theology that
grace is everywhere, while appreciating how time's graceful beauty
manifests itself in the diversity of temporal moments, human
communities, and most fully in the heavenly communion of the
saints.
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