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This fifth and final volume of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian eschatology and ecclesiology in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In Part One of the book Kärkkäinen discusses...

giving—let alone in the economic Trinity in its outward movement.22 Hence, rightly conceived, we may speak of “temporalized eternity.”23 Or, as Pannenberg came to say in his later years, eternity is “omnitemporal,”24 as the infinite source of time both transcends and incorporates it into itself. Therefore, “we find God on both sides of the fence, both as eternal and as temporal.”25 This kind of “God’s own time”26 will not divorce God from real activity and presence in the world (as timelessness would
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