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Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth. Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future...

The biblical witness and its doctrinal development in the catholic and Reformed tradition suggest that we ought to speak of the visibility of the invisible God. God’s invisibility is not merely a statement regarding his ocular presence but a metaphysical marker that denotes his ontological distinction from all things visible and invisible. Not only that, but we can extend beyond Gavrilyuk’s immediate point. Such a marker (this dialectic of the visibility of the invisible God) points not only to God’s
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