Eternity and Eternal Life

The Newtonian concept of time has been changed by Einsteinian insight. Yet the
Einsteinian world view might make it difficult to appreciate traditional
concepts of eschatology, like heaven and hell, death and immortality, life
after death and resurrection, last day and final judgments, because these
expressions presuppose a pre-Einsteinian view of the universe. Since theology
cannot remain unaffected by the new research in concepts of time, _Eternity
and Eternal Life_ tries to express the eschatological faith of the Church by
using the time language of our age. To achieve this it provides an overview on
the research in the nature of time done in geology, cosmology, physics,
biology, psychology, sociology, history and philosophy and proposes a notion
of time for “timely” Christology and for “timely” eschatology.

By using the singularity event as literary form, Horvath scrutinizes how
Christ’s time can lead to the times of all existing realities, through death
to “eternity.” This is a pioneering work, one that needs to be tested in the
community of interested readers. It is a communal search for an understanding
of life, death and eternal life, not only in the light of abstract ideas and
cultural linguistic doctrines in the world of religions, but also in the light
of science and especially of a person as the horizon of understanding for both
time and eternity. Christ as the eschatological union of time and eternity
becomes the work’s unifying focus and its paradigm, which solves recognized
problems and opens our minds to new ones.