Reasonable Hope. The Relevance of Reconciliation in Contemporary Eschatology

当代基督教末世论必须在两个极端之间航行：一方面，它不能被引诱到公开知情的猜测在来世和解的实际过程。另一方面，它是其经常性的任务，概念化的基督教希望和解，并提供一个合理的理由，这一希望，因为传统的图像既不是不言自明的，也不是不言自明的。这就是本书的目的：利用现代人类在全球化世界中的罪恶纠缠，它确定了人类存在的一种矛盾结构。这种二律背反需要一种现实的准假设，这种现实使人类超越死亡。汉娜阿伦特的宽恕概念的神学接受开辟了定义基督教末世的希望，希望和解的可能性。它的神学的可持续性是证明面临的问题时，末世的行动，其实施，其普遍完成的主题。

Contemporary Christian eschatology has to navigate between two extremes: On the one hand, it must not be lured into overtly informed speculations on the actual process of reconciliation in the afterlife. On the other hand, it is its recurrent task to conceptualize the Christian hope for reconciliation and to provide a rational justification of this hope, because the traditional imagery is neither self-explicatory nor self-evident. This is the aim of this book: Drawing on the culpable entanglement of modern human beings in the globalized world, it identifies an antinomic structure of human existence. This antinomy necessitates the quasi-postulate of a reality which redeems human beings beyond their death. A theological reception of Hannah Arendt’s concept of forgiveness opens up the possibility of defining the Christian eschatological hope as hope for reconciliation. Its theological sustainability is proven when facing the problems of the subject of eschatological action, its implementation, and its universal completion.