apocalypse
On the Uses and Abuses of "Realized Eschatology"
Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."
Nick Freiling
Nick is an editor at Theophaneia. He's a father of five and avid North Florida angler.
time
John Betz on Eternity's Marian Bearer
In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."
David Bentley Hart
All Longing Leads Us Back to God
The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.
children
Children of the Eschaton
If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?
time
Profane Duration and Sacred Time
Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.
Genesis
On the Height of Adam's Fence
A careful reading of Genesis reveals a curious discrepancy between Yahweh's injunction and how Eve relates it whilst conversing with the Serpent.
Whence Virtue in Light of Apocalypse?
Whatever is virtuous in light of our divine life in Christ must ever expect, with no exception or suspense, what is imminent.
Steinbeck, Divine Stupidity, and Finding God in the Darkness
In the opening chapter of East of Eden, John Steinbeck artfully (and rather wistfully) reports his take on the spiritual consciousness of American pioneers in the late 19th-century – many of them first- and second-generation immigrants, and therefore migrants twice over. Writing specifically about those families who settled in the Salinas