A Relativistic Eschatology: Time, Eternity, and Eschatology in Light of the Physics of Relativity

Abstract. Unique epistemological challenges arise whenever one embarks on the critical and self-critical reflection of the nature of time and the end of time. I attempt to construct my preference for an eschatological distinction between time and eternity from within a middle way, avoiding both the...

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Main Author: Jackelén, Antje 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 955-974
Further subjects:B apophatic surplus
B time and space
B eschatological difference between time and eternity
B differentiated relationality
B Potentiality
B Physics
B Futurity
B time and eternity
B Frank Tipler
B Freeman Dyson
B Christian es-chatology
B Oscar Cullmann
B modes of time
B special relativity
B already and not yet
B scientific eschatology
B Hope
B Albert Einstein
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