The specifics of these kinds of promises will be addressed in the chapters that follow but for now a theological definition of promise-making will depend on what we learn about God and how he relates to his human creatures as a consequence of making promises to them. How God makes promises and then fulfils them is the key to understanding eschatology in the context of life in the Middle. Barth suggested that we should consider two key biblical promises: God’s promise to be present in creation and