"Two Approaches to Eschatology and Temporality: Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger"
This paper explicates Schmemann’s and Ratzinger’s respective understandings of eschatology and how this informs their differing notions of temporality. Eschatology is centred on time for Schmemann, and in light of this he argues that the last things are a western aberration that deride temporality. Whereas, for Ratzinger eschatology fits within Christology and is a relational category. I will argue that Ratzinger’s relational approach, which includes the last things, establishes the importance of temporality, and that, ironically, it is Schmemann’s conception of eschatology that fails in this regard.
Date:
1 May 2023, 16:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Venue:
Blackfriars, St Giles OX1 3LY
Venue Details:
Aula
Speaker:
Dr Andrew Kaethler (Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Theology at Catholic Pacific College)
Organisers:
Victoria De Haan (Blackfriars),
Dr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre)
Organiser contact email address:
daniel.dehaan@campion.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Aquinas Institute,
Dr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Daniel De Haan
