Theologizing as Interlocution
The Crosspollinational Relation of John Zizioulas and Colin Gunton’s Eschatological Trinitarian Reasoning
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Colin Gunton,, John Zizioulas, eschatology, trinitarian ontology, patro-causal linearity, perichoretic trinitarian teleology, cross-pollinationAbstract
This essay focuses on the cross-pollination between John Zizoulas’ eschatological-trinitarian ontology and Colin Gunton’s trinitarian theology, and endeavors to unearth in Colin Gunton’s legacy some focal concurrences as well as central discrepancies between the two theologians on this aspect. These similarities and nuances indicate Gunton’s and Zizioulas’ genuine interaction, attentive interlocution, and profound correlation to each other’s literature and discourses. In the interlocution of these two giant trinitarian theoreticians we have the profound theological lesson that to reason the Trinity theologically means to image the Trinity as such in one’s personal reasoning and theologizing activities and manners. By putting this reasoning in the light of the eschatological Kingdom, it opens the horizon for future-based reflection and creative syntheses.
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