ENDLESS WELCOME“. DOGMATIC-THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH AND RESURRECTION

Abstract

From a dogmatic-theological perspective, this contribution deals with fundamental questions of eschatology in contemporary German-speaking theology. It discusses the theological debate about the “resurrection in death”, a thesis which has been present-ed since the 70s by Gisbert Greshake and Gerhard Lohfink and which has been reject-ed by Joseph Ratzinger in his “Eschatologie”. The contribution attempts to deepen the thesis of the “resurrection in death” on the background of a processual understanding of eschatological existence and of a life “after” death. The systematic-theological lead-ing perspective of the contribution is an “intellectus spei” that assumes that every form of thought and language that approaches the doctrine of the “resurrection of the dead” must be inscribed in the “miracle” of the remaining mystery of the resurrection.