By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What is it to exist eschatologically?
To exist eschatologically is to exist in the present -- every present -- in the light of the eschaton, the last thing.
The last thing is the boundless love of God, which not only makes all things really possible and really real, but also makes them everlastingly significant.
To exist eschatologically, then, is to exist in faith in God's boundless love and in the love that this faith makes possible and demands, i.e., the love of God and of all things in God.
Otherwise put; to exist eschatologically is to entrust oneself to God's boundless love without reservation and loyally to serve the cause of God's love without qualification.
Put still otherwise; to exist eschatologically is to exist in radical, paradoxical freedom, i.e., freedom from all things, oneself and all others, and freedom for all things.
27 February 2007; rev. 2 February 2010
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