Resurrection, Judgment & New Creation
How does Christian hope address death, judgment, historical trauma, and the renewal of creation?
Eschatology is not speculative chronology but the horizon that renders truthful lament, patient action, and hope possible now.
Eschatology becomes the horizon for lament, judgment, action, and hope rather than a timetable or escape from creation.
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Distinguish Christian hope from optimism and progress
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Relate resurrection, judgment, and new creation
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Construct hope adequate to trauma and ecological crisis
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Promise interrupts the present
Christian hope begins from God’s promise and therefore contradicts what presents itself as inevitable.
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Resurrection of the body
Salvation concerns this creature and creation transformed, not escape into disembodied continuity.
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Judgment as good news
Judgment names God’s truthful setting-right of victims, perpetrators, histories, and desires.
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New creation and action
Hope frees action from both the demand to save the world and the excuse that nothing matters.