Empire,Eschatology and Stolen Land |
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| Authors: | Allen G Jorgenson |
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| Institution: | Allen G. Jorgenson is Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. He is author of The Appeal to Experience in the Christologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Rahner (Peter Lang, 2007) and Awe and Expectation: On Being Stewards of the Gospel (Wipf and Stock, forthcoming). |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : In this article I propose that empire be countered by a revised understanding of eschatology. I first explore the idea of an eschatology of space, wherein the notion of eschatos as limit is advanced. I then revisit a temporal understanding of eschatology illumining the theme of the pause, or rest. This Sabbath theme, in concert with attentiveness to space, is then brought to bear upon the primal North American experience of empire: the expropriation of aboriginal lands. |
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| Keywords: | empire eschatology land pause aboriginal |
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