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

Good observation Ted. In fact, NT Wright's "Surprised by Hope" is
chock-full of references to Polkinghorne. The middle chapters of the book
could be seen as NT Wright's take on Polkinghorne's eschatology in dialogue
with Moltmann and Pannenberg (Wright doesn't dismiss Moltmann out of hand
but is strong on asserting that creation is "other" than God, specifically
by way of contrast to Moltmann's panentheism). I can't recommend "Surprised
by Hope" highly enough. It's not a faith-science book, but it offers some
fresh perspectives on the purpose of creation, suffering, and redemption
that fit well into faith-science discussions.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:

> 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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