Time, Eternity, and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity

by Eunsoo Kim

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications

, 2010

Overview

One of the vital issues in contemporary Christian theology is the problem of a renewed understanding of God’s eternity and its relation to time. This is not merely a peripheral doctrinal issue, but lies at the heart of our understanding of God and humanity, and contributes to our entire worldview. This study focuses on a long-standing debate between two competing views on God’s eternity: one focused on God’s absolute timelessness in classical theism, and the other on God’s temporal everlastingness in contemporary panentheism. In contrast to both of these well-worn options, this book presents an alternative Trinitarian analogical understanding of God’s eternity and its relation to time, especially through a critical reflection on Karl Barth’s and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s engagement of the issue. This analogical approach, based on the dynamic and dramatic concepts of God’s being-in-relation and of the Triune God’s communicative action in eternity and time, has the potential to resolve the debate between absolute timeless eternity and temporal everlasting duration.

Product Details

• Title : Time, Eternity, and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity
• Author: Kim, Eunsoo
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN: 9781630876616

About Eunsoo Kim

Dr. Eunsoo Kim has served as a missionary to Japan since 1986. He is founder and Executive Director of Church Revitalization International (CRI). His previous teaching experience includes services on the faculty of Tokyo Graduate School of Theology (1990-1998) and of Birmingham Theological Seminary (1995-2003) where he headed the Initiative for Asian Theological Ministry (2001-2004). As a church planter, he organized two Korean churches (in Japan and USA) and one Japanese church (in USA). Dr. Kim’s special interests include intercultural church planting and growth, Asian Christianity, intercultural leadership, globalization/contextualization, and research methodology.