RE: Where are the dear departed? (was Re: [asa] Sin, animals, and salvation)

It's probably worth mentioning in this context, that NT Wright and John
Polkinghorne are good friends, who probably do discuss eschatology from time
to time. This is not simply to equate their views on eschatology--that
would be a mistake--but I think it's fair to say that they do share an
overall vision of what the new heaven and earth are about. As Polkinghorne
says in Belief in God in an Age of Science, the "psychosomatic unities" he
believes we are as human beings "will be remembered by God and reconstituted
in a divine act of resurrection. The 'matter' of the world to come, which
will be the carrier of this reembodiment, will be the transformed matter of
the present universe, itself redeemed by God beyond *its* cosmic death.
That resurrected universe is not a second attempt by the Creator to produce
a world *ex nihilo* but it is the transformation of the present world in an
act of new creation *ex vetere*." (p. 22)

Ted

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Received on Thu Nov 20 10:06:13 2008