Resurrection, Time, and Justification: Referencing Karl Barth, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Jenson
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Resurrection, Time, and Justification: Referencing Karl Barth, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Jenson delves into the enigmatic concept of time and its relation to Christian theology, with a particular focus on the future's impact on time. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of time, this book aims to provide an insightful reflection that will deepen our understanding of time in light of Christian theology. The book poses several thought-provoking questions, such as whether the future is completely shrouded in mystery or whether it provides a glimpse of itself that beckons us toward it. Additionally, the book explores whether the future retroactively affects the present and how time flows. Sang Hoon Lee examines Christian theology's distinct perspective on time, which is informed by its doctrines of the resurrection, the last event, and justification. In the process, the book explores the concept of retroactivity, which is derived from the implications of the resurrection and its power over history and time. Ultimately, the book seeks to unpack the power of the resurrection over time and history and to assert that Jesus as the risen is the center of history.
Introduction
Chapter One: The Contemporaneity of the Risen Jesus in Karl Barth’s Theology
Chapter Two: The Retroactivity of the Future in Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Theology
Chapter Three: The Retroactivity of the New Covenant
Chapter Four: Toward the Eschatological Understanding of Justification: Premodern Accounts
Chapter Five: Toward the Eschatological Understanding of Justification: Modern Accounts Chapter Six: The Physical Transcendence of the Risen One in Robert Jenson’s Theology
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Taking to task brightest theological luminaries such as Barth and Pannenberg is not for the faint-hearted. It takes a lot of audacity—as well as analytic and theological skills combined with wide and deep learning. This is what the author of this brilliant book is doing. Building critically on the proposals of these and other Masters, he argues carefully for a constructive proposal as to how to think about time and eternity and what the implications to Christian doctrine might be. In fact, Sang Hoon Lee is match to his famous interlocutors—and makes a unique contribution to the continuing critical discussion of these vital topics. This is systematic theology at its best.
The contemporaneity of Jesus is a central axiom of Christian faith. But how should we think of this? In this study of recent proposals regarding the retroactivity of the future, Sang Hoon Lee skillfully negotiates some complex theological materials to suggest ways in which Jesus can be conceived as a past, present and future reality.
The cosmic significance of Christ’s resurrection has been a long-standing and fundamental Christian conviction, even as the full comprehension of it always extends beyond our theological grasp. In this careful and interesting study, Lee takes us some way towards further grasping just how wide-reaching and cosmic that significance really is. His engagement with Barth, Pannenberg, Jenson, and other significant Protestant theologians is judicious but critical, and Lee’s creative appropriation of contemporary scientific insights on time left me with much to consider.
- Title: Resurrection, Time, and Justification: Referencing Karl Barth, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Jenson
- Author: Sang Lee
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781793644930, 9781793644923, 1793644926, 1793644934
- Resource ID: LLS:9781793644930
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-18T20:46:59Z
Sang Hoon Lee is professor in systematic theology at Bethel Theological Seminary in South Sudan.