Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 38 No. 4, 2018.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38403
Freedom, Justice and Peace. The Future of Reformation Legacy in a Dialogue with the Contemporary Apocalyptic Theology
Darko Pirija
orcid.org/0000-0002-3134-4223
; Adventističko teološko visoko učilište, Maruševec 82, HR–42243 Maruševec
Abstract
The further affirmation of Reformation theological legacy in contemporary European cultures requires its creative reinterpretation in order to make meaningful the original value of its fundamental theological content and at the same time respond to new questions and dilemmas that emanate from a stratified cultural habitus of the late modernity. Substantial redirecting of the Reformation theology should follow the logos of God's reality rather than the logos of modernity within theoretical, methodological and epistemological boundaries that will warrant a more even-handed and fruitful dialogue between theology and culture. To bring to fruition the ideals of peace, freedom and justice on the basis of faith in Christ's transforming love, it needs to be situated in the contemporary apocalyptic theology that takes seriously the traditional reformation doctrine of sin and repentance and brings together the present and future aspect of Christ's apocalypse of freedom, peace and justice. By living a new life in Christ, Christian communities can testify to the fullness of life based on the faith in the transforming effects of God's presence in history and on the hope in the final dissolution of evil in God's promised future.
Keywords
freedom; peace; justice; Miroslav Volf; Charles Taylor; Jacques Ellul; Jürgen Moltmann; reformation; apocalyptic eschatology; repentance
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219466
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Publication date:
14.2.2019.
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