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The Christian disposition towards the Second Coming of Christ is anticipatory, for Christians are called to act appropriately in view of the expected end-time. This Christian eschatological anticipation cannot be framed successfully within traditional theological models of grace and nature. The idea of emergence, however, provides a successful way of framing Christian eschatological anticipation theologically. The role of imagination as a vehicle for understanding Christian eschatological anticipation will also be examined
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Love, A. (2017). Anticipation and Eschatology. In: Poli, R. (eds) Handbook of Anticipation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_12-1
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