La escatología de Pablo

Visión e interpretaciones

Abstract

Our entire exhibition is full of the persuasion that Christ’s work constitutes a beginning, that he has started a process which powerfully advances towards the last future. The creation of the world was already the beginning of a colossal evolution. The meaning was in advance the beginning of the movement started by Christ, towards the consummation of everything created in the absolute future. In this regard, Paul in 1 Tes 4,13-18 realizes the most direct and complete description of the apocalypse, but it is in 1 Cor 15 concerning the inseparability one from the other integral elements of the éschaton appear’s more evident: Christ’s coming (v.23) which starts the entire process of consummation; the resurrection of the dead, the judgment which means the defeat of the enemies (vv. 24-26), the end (télos) of the present world (v. 24) and the new creation in which God will be «everything in all things» (v. 28).