Creation, eschaton, and ethics : the ethical significance of the creation-eschaton relation in the thought of Emil Brunner and Jürgen Moltmann

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Creation, eschaton, and ethics : the ethical significance of the creation-eschaton relation in the thought of Emil Brunner and Jürgen Moltmann

Douglas J. Schuurman

(American university studies, Series VII, Theology and religion ; v. 86)

P. Lang, c1991

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Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1988

Includes bibliographical references (p.[175]-183) and index

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This incisive study concerns the ways in which theological claims about creation's original and final perfection shape social ethics. Schuurman argues that prominent 20th century theologians Emil Brunner and Juergen Moltmann wrongly envision the eschaton as radically discontinuous with creation, and that this discontinuity coheres with serious inadequacies in their social ethics. His thesis is that continuity between creation and eschaton is necessary if Christian social ethics is to avoid dualistic understandings of love and justice, personal and impersonal values, church and world, revolutionism and conservatism. Schuurman establishes theological groundwork for a social ethic that calls for continuous transformation of social institutions and structures.

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