infinity from the standpoints of time, power, and space’.70 To predicate eternity of God is to assert that God embraces all time; that all time is present to God.71 It is clear from the later work that Pannenberg’s agenda is no longer shaped by the concerns of his earlier writings. These concerns have not disappeared; he still insists on ‘the constitutive significance of [the eschatological] consummation [of the kingdom] for the eternity of God’.72 But the focus is now on the eternity of God rather
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