Final

Question 1

Eschaton

Answer 1

Last things, that which goes out from the center

1. Spatial (further from origin)
2. Temporal
3. Qualitative (best, worse)
4. Numerical

Question 2

Eschatology in Scripture

Answer 2

Speaks of last things but not in an organized fashion

Von Rad - Cannot read OT without expectation

Question 3

Exitus Reditus

Answer 3

Logical

Everything comes from God and therefore returns to God in a logical manner

Question 4

Language

Answer 4

Symbolic Language - uses symbols
Analogical Language - analogies, proportional (God as Father)
Metaphorical Language - “To carry beyond” based on our experience and taken to the eschaton

Question 5

Promise

Answer 5

Moltmann Theology of Hope

Religion of Epiphanies - Established/sedentary people, God establishes Himself in particular time and place (Temple)

Religion of Promise - nomadic, God manifests Himself in the Word, promising a future

Question 6

Parousia

Answer 6

Coming or Presence

Future event

Parousia was not was not immediate, Church established as institution

Question 7

Finis

Answer 7

1. Simply an end, interrupts life and ends it
2. End in reference to a goal, the final cause, finishing a race
3. Confine, divides the border between two things

Question 8

Immortality of the Soul

Answer 8

Attributed to the Greeks
Plato: dualistic, body and soul difference. In relationship but conflict
Aristotle: psyche and soma are not two realities but one, matter and form - Hylomorphism

NT
Death is not an obstacle for Christ, those who participate in Him will participate in resurrection

Question 9

Biblical concept of death

Answer 9

We are naturally mortal

Life is the breath of Yaweh, life belongs to God

Question 10

Sheol

Answer 10

Sense of a Desert

Beyond limit of the cosmos, it is world of disorder and thus kept away from order of the world

Question 11

Death and Sin

Answer 11

Council of Orange: Adam caused the transmission of death that came from sin

Question 12

Immortality of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body

Answer 12

1. Inter - stage between death and resurrection of the body
2. The “I” - same “I” exists until the resurrection
3. Interim - “Human self” subsists in the interim without the complement of its body

Question 13

The Fulfilment

Answer 13

God may be “all in all”
Of Cosmos, History, and Man

Summa - Beatific vision

Fulfilment as Eternal Life

Question 14

Purgatory

Answer 14

Proof is not in a few verse of Scripture but a cord that flows throughout

Praying for the dead

Augustine:
Good men, not completely good men, evil men

Aquinas: Penalty of sin. Confession erases our guilt but we still incur penalty

Question 15

Judgement

Answer 15

Expressed through our experience, metaphor

Mishpat
King maintains order, must restore when violated

Parousia does not come yet, not justice in meantime?
No, there is particular and universal judgement

Day of Judgement associated with word of agriculture, separating good wheat from weeds

Parousia event of justice, affirmation of God’s criteria, LOVE

Question 16

Hell

Answer 16

Infernus
Root word infra - beneath

Sheol: souls there without name or identity
Gehenna: more like our idea of hell

In NT, Christ goes to Sheol/Hades/Bosom of Abraham - Christ cannot go to Gehenna

Hell exists, contains the devil and those who die in mortal sin, includes definitive suffering and torment.

Both pain of loss (privation of communion with God) and pain of the senses

Von Balthasar, God desires all to be saved, we ought to hope all are saved. Does not deny the existence of Hell or say that it is empty