{"id":796,"date":"2009-05-01T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=796"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:17:15","slug":"another-note-against-blank-slate-eschatology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/05\/01\/another-note-against-blank-slate-eschatology\/","title":{"rendered":"Another note against &#8220;blank slate&#8221; eschatology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/04\/29\/giving-the-curse-too-much-credit\/\">earlier<\/a> how I was pleasantly surprised to find George MacDonald&#8217;s eschatology to be in the same vein as N.T. Wright&#8217;s. That is, focusing on the redemption of creation as a whole and rejecting a Platonic, ethereal notion of heaven and resurrection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/winter-stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"284\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 425px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 425\/284;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, he invokes astronomy, as well as the animal kingdom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new heaven and the new earth will at least be a heaven and an earth! What would the newest earth be to the old children without its animals? Barer than the heavens emptied of the constellations that are called b their names. Then, if the earth must have its aimals, why not the old ones, already dear? The sons of God are not a new race of sons of God, but the old race glorified &#8211; why a new race of animals, and not the old ones glorified?<\/p>\n<p>-George MacDonald, from Sermon: The Hope of the Universe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pchee\/521027252\/\">Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already mentioned earlier how I was pleasantly surprised to find George MacDonald&#8217;s eschatology to be in the same vein as N.T. Wright&#8217;s. That is, focusing on the redemption of creation as a whole and rejecting a Platonic, ethereal notion of heaven and resurrection. Here, he invokes astronomy, as well as the animal kingdom: The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/05\/01\/another-note-against-blank-slate-eschatology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another note against &#8220;blank slate&#8221; eschatology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}