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THE ESCHATOLOGICAL CRITERION
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL CRITERION

Author(s): Vlad Mureșan
Subject(s): Systematic Theology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Eschatology; Postmodernism; Relativism; Church; Deconstruction; Ratzinger; Antichrist; Apocalypse; global government; watchfulness;

Summary/Abstract: This paper establishes an eschatological criterion as a principle of comprehending history through its totalization. We argue that the opposition between relativism and reason can be fully grasped only from an eschatological standpoint. Postmodernism was associated with “post-historical” relativism epitomized in deconstruction as dissolution of all criteria. But the eschatological meaning of postmodernity is ultimately an epochal confusion that will culminate in a “church without an essence”. To more concretely thematize such a church we devised a political-theological analysis of the Apocalypse.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 199-213
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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