Riječki teološki časopis, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1997.
Conference paper
HOPE AND ESHATON -Waiting for the face of God
Marijan Jurčević
; Teologija u Rijeci - područni studij KBF Zagreb, Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
SUMMARY
The word hope associates future, something that is going to happen. The man is homo sperans - hoping man. Hope does not derive from peculiar psychology or determined ideology. The hope is interwoven into human structure and through it the man overcomes this world's dimensions. Therefore, we can talk about hope looking upwards or vertical hope, and about hope looking forward or horizontal hope.
Every talk about hope is in danger to deviate into poetical or even to imagination. Therefore christian hope leans on eshatology which conditions it's way and content. Christian hope leans it's linkage with Eshaton on hidden God (Dews absconditus) for salvation of hidden Man
(Homo absconditus).
Man hopes to meet a live God. "God is of those who hope". Therefore, our way to future is a way of waiting for God. God gives himself to those he loves. Nowadays experience of God is the experience of our Eshaton. Jesus introduces us already, but not complerely in the experience of God and final "News".
Anticipation of Eshaton leads us already in transformation of the bodily to spiritual, that will be completed only in new creation. Only then, will bodily materialism be supstituted with spiritual. Distingrated materialism will be supstituted with integrated. It is toward new heaven and new land that christian hope dirested is.
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Publication date:
26.6.1997.
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