Eschatological Realism

Evoking Eternity

“…In the Orthodox theological view, eternity encompasses human history, history here imagined as a linear, irreversible movement from Creation to Final Judgment. Within history, Christians work toward the Eschaton (Djakovac 2015, 229). While eternity can only be experienced in its fullness at the end of time, it is not relegated to the climax of a chronological timeline, as it is in some Protestant understandings (cf.…”