The most obvious blurring of meaning is at the level of temporality. Instead of referring strictly to “last things,” eschatology is now regularly used to refer to the so-called “overlap of the ages,” the “already-not yet,”—otherwise known as inaugurated eschatology.7 Inaugurated eschatology is a widely accepted feature of the New Testament in general, and of Paul in particular. As explored below in chapter 3, Paul perceives that the age to come at the eschaton has broken into the present through