Now and Forever by John E. Thiel PAPERBACK 9780268205751

University of Notre Dame Press

Now and ForeverA Theological Aesthetics of Time\nAuthor(s): John E. Thiel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268205751, 978-0268205751\nSynopsis\nBuilding on the insights of the ressourcement theology of grace, this sophisticated theological aesthetics offers a fresh vision of the doctrine of creation through a consideration of the beauty of time.\n\nConventional eschatological accounts of life after death tend to emphasize the discontinuity between earthly life and the hereafter: whereas this life is subject to the contingencies of time, life after death is characterized by a stolid eternity. In contrast to this standard view, John E. Thiel's Now and Forever articulates a Catholic eschatology in which earthly life and heavenly life are seen as gracefully continuous.\n\nThis account offers a reconceptualization of time, which, Thiel argues, is best understood as the sacramental medium of .