Death and the afterlife Flashcards
Mark 1:14
“The time has come near and the kingdom of God has come near”
Parousia
Jesus coming back to Earth est. new era
How did Jesus present the afterlife
presents as if already begun - inaugurated eschatology
- parables emphasize nowness
St Paul
before “darkly” but can now see “clearly”
What is Sheol
departed spirits awaiting hell
Jesus return
“noone knows only the father”
“return like a thief in the night”
What does purgatory promote
fairness = allows someone to prepare
ambiguity of judgment
Two decrees of the elect
antelapsarian decree - God decreed elect at the moment of creation before fall
postlapsarian - after the fall
St Paul on elect
chose all kinds of people
Aquinas
God elects those to Heaven and wicked elect themselves to Hell
Dante on Heaven
ineffable
source of knowledge and illumination through God
ten levels - souls intellectual resting place and state of bliss
Mark 13:27
“send out the angels and gather elect from the four winds”
Augustine
Even Christ not enough
will weakened by the fall
Hick on elect
universalisation
Barth on Elect
Inclusivism
‘anonymous Christian’
