Panel: REMEMBERING THE FUTURE: JOHN ZIZIOULAS'S ESCHATOLOGICAL VISION



919.3 - THEOLOGIZING AS INTERLOCUTION: THE CROSSPOLLINATIONAL RELATION OF ZIZIOULAS AND GUNTON'S THEOLOGICAL TRINITARIAN REASONING IN LIGHT OF THE ESCHATA

AUTHORS:
Awad N. (Bonn University ~ Bonn ~ Germany)
Text:
The speakers focuses on the impact of John Zizoulas's discourse on Gunton's trinitarian theology, and it endeavors to unearth in Colin Gunton's legacy some focal concurrences as well as central discrepancies between the two theologians. These similarities and nuances indicate Gunton's genuine interaction, attentive interlocution, and profound correlation with Zizioulas's literature and discourses. In the interlocution of these two giant trinitarian theoreticians we have the profound theological lesson that to reason the Trinity theologically means to image the trinity as such in your personal reasoning and theologizing activities and manners. By putting then this reasoning in the light of the Kingdom, it opens the horizon for future reflection and creative syntheses.