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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...

and mutual conditioning. R. Russell summarizes it succinctly: “Eschatologies such as these view the new creation not as a replacement of the present creation—i.e., not as a second ex nihilo—nor as the mere working out of the natural processes of the world. Instead eschatology involves the complete transformation of the world by a radically new act of God beginning at Easter and continuing into the future.”75 The demand for such a comprehensive and all-embracing eschatology raises questions as to
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