Theocentric Eschatology
I have just read a superb book on Purgatory and ecumenism. I was particularly struck by the following quotation from Augustine:
Brett Salkeld, Can Catholics and Evangelicals Agree about Purgatory and the Last Judgment? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2011, p. 74 (original source ref not provided).
God is "the Last Thing of the creature. Gained, He is its paradise; lost, He is its hell; as demanding, He is its judgment; as cleansing, He is its purgatory.
Brett Salkeld, Can Catholics and Evangelicals Agree about Purgatory and the Last Judgment? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2011, p. 74 (original source ref not provided).
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IS
"Without Serpent/Satan The Bible would end on Page 2 with something as this...
"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed and they lived happily ever after
THE END."
Unfortunately Hayes does not give us the text from Augustine. I wonder if Balthasar might have been thinking of this text from the City of God:
"There we shall rest and we shall see: we shall see and we shall love; we shall love and we shall praise. Behold what shall be in the end and shall not end." --Augustine (City of God XXII.30).
That is very helpful. Thanks for the info.
Robin
Thanks for commenting but I am confused as to how your comment relates to the post. Or was it simply something you wanted to post online somewhere?
Robin