Shinran and Eschatology

Eschatology and the Parables

In any attempt to understand the teaching of Jesus as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, a consideration of the parables must take an important place. This is demonstrated not merely by the plethora of critical study and popular exposition to which the parables have given rise, but above all by the place which the parables occupy in the Synoptic tradition. According to A. M. Hunter roughly one t...

Scientific Eschatology ∗

The future evolution of the universe suggested by the cosmological model proposed earlier at this meeting by the authors is explored. The fundamental role played by the positive “cosmological constant” is emphasized. Dyson’s 1979 paper entitled Time Without End is briefly reviewed. His most optimistic scenario requires that the universe be geometrically open and that biology is structural in th...

Eschatology of the Psalter

There are certain editions of the New Testament which by way of appendix contain the Psalter, an arrangement obviously intended to serve the convenience of devotion. It has, however, the curious result of bringing the Apocalypse and the Psalms into immediate proximity. On first thought it might seem that scarcely two more diverse things could be put together. The storm-ridden landscape of the A...

The Ferrymen of Elysium: Nostratic Eschatology and the Homeric Phaeacians

Transimmanence and the Im/possible Relationship between Eschatology and Transcendence

Although we live in a post-metaphysical age, there is a renewed interest in transcendence, especially at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and theology. There are several reasons for this: among others, the important link that the future (eschatology) has with the unknown or that which lies beyond (transcendence). In this article, this relation between eschatology and transcendence is e...