Seeing God
eBook - ePub

Seeing God

The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Seeing God

The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

About this book

Christianity Today  2019 Book Award for Theology/Ethics

To see God is our heart’s desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly  how  do we see God—with our physical eyes or with the mind’s eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, Hans Boersma focuses on “vision” as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. 

Seeing God  is both a historical theology and a dogmatic articulation of the beatific vision, of how the invisible God becomes visible to us. In examining what Christian thinkers throughout history have written about the beatific vision, Boersma explores how God trains us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next. Christ-centered, sacramental, and ecumenical, Boersma’s work presents life as a never-ending journey toward seeing the face of God in Christ both here and in the world to come.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Andrew Louth
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Plausibility and Vision: The Beatific Vision in Modernity
  10. Part 1: Beatific Vision in Early Christian Thought
  11. Part 2: Beatific Vision in Medieval Thought
  12. Part 3: Beatific Vision in Protestant Thought
  13. Part 4: Beatific Vision: A Dogmatic Appraisal
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index of Authors
  16. Index of Subjects
  17. Index of Scripture References