Divine dis-satisfaction : purgatory as the eternal process of heaven /
Purgatory is not distinct from heaven but is rather the relational process of eternal progress into the inexhuastible depth of relationship as continous communion in the life of the Triune God that preserves and transforms every experience of creation at all levels. Given the human need to work thro...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Ch 1. Epektasis as continuity of relationality: towards a re-imagination of purgatory and heaven -- Ch 2. Eternal remaining in heaven as purgatory : bridging soteriological aspirations for process and continuity -- Ch 3. Divine dis-satisfaction and eternal purgatory -- Conclusion. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Purgatory is not distinct from heaven but is rather the relational process of eternal progress into the inexhuastible depth of relationship as continous communion in the life of the Triune God that preserves and transforms every experience of creation at all levels. Given the human need to work through the dramas and traumas-the unfinished businesses-of relationships that have infinite possibilities in Christ, there is both a need for purgatory and a need to reimagine purgatory, which is inseparable from the ancient practice of prayer for the dead. The need for purgatory as a model of gradual and eternal redemption, as opposed to instantaneous redemption, is present in the soteriological aspirations of the different Christian traditions, of the experiences of victims of sin, and of an evolutionary universe in process. This thesis will first use the framework of a theology of process drawn from St. Gregory of Nyssa's concept of epektasis as "eternal progress." Then, it will explore the emphasis on the gradual process of redemption as purgatory in Catholic soteriology in comparison with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant responses to such a process. The Korean concept of han and Shelly Rambo's "Theology of Remaining" challenge Christians to enrich their soteriologies by paying attention to the needs of the sinned against. Finally, a re-envisioning of evolutionary theology, particularly in the works of Gloria Schaab, S.S.J., and Denis Edward, and process theology, as Joseph Bracken, S.J., has appropriated it, to develop this concept of heaven as an eternal becoming in relating to an infinite God who is both "impassible and impassioned," in the words of Rob Lister, points to the very Source of process as redemption-Divine Dis-satisfaction. This is the dynamic in God's Trinitarian life that grounds and drives all processes toward God's self as expressed in the retrieval of epektasis/purgatory, the various Christian soteriological aspirations, and the theological and philosophical investigations of the natural world. I will borrow the concepts of various schools of thoughts from classical and neo-Thomistic metaphysics to panentheistic evolutionary and neo-Whieheadian process theology to articulate this re-conceptualization of Divine Dis-satisfaction as God's own purgatory. | |
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