🌍 The New Testament writers express a radical hope that the world is not yet finished.
🤝 Being made in the image of God requires seeing Christ, but a face-to-face relationship with Him is currently not possible.
🌱 The world is depicted as being in labor and our bodies as not yet resurrected.
🌍 Living in the present towards an eschaton, a presence of God that is not yet comprehensible.
⏳ Eschatology is the study of how our present ways of living and understanding relate to their ultimate end.
🔍 We constantly think of our lives and history in terms of their purpose and direction towards the end.
🌍 Part of my work as a theologian is to uncover the implicit eschatological assumptions people have about themselves and the world.
✝️ Religious faith both makes sense of the world and acknowledges its nonsensicality, without denying or resolving it prematurely.
🙏 Faith propels action to alleviate suffering and advance medicine, but reminds us that the wound at the heart of existence can only be healed at a deep, mysterious level.
🎭 Spending time in the Opera and theater in Vienna made it difficult for the speaker to tell reality from make-believe.
🌍 Studying philosophy and theology in the US helped the speaker think about the relationship between this world and other worlds.
🔍 Engaging with Martin Heidegger's ideas, the speaker explored the concept of living authentically and the idea that our life is always a question.
🤔 The question of who we are and who we will be is difficult to answer because we cannot do so after death.
🙏 People of faith believe in an afterlife and hope for something beyond death, but it may be a gamble to live life based on this belief.
💡 The motivations of theologians are often unspoken, driving them to learn and discuss various subjects.
🌟 Trusting in the existence of meaning, even when uncertain
🙏 The significance and risk of having faith in God
🎶 The transformative power of embracing faith
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