Eschatology is reimagined as a vision of renewal that embraces the whole community of creation, including non-human animals. Challenging anthropocentric frameworks that marginalise animals within Christian hope, the chapter argues that animals share in the Spirit’s redemptive future. Drawing on Pentecostal theology, ecotheology, and theologians such as Moltmann and Deane-Drummond, it proposes that the Spirit’s work includes advocating for suffering creatures, grieving ecological loss, and initiating the healing of damaged relationships between humans and animals. Eschatological hope therefore entails not the destruction of creation but its transformation, where animals participate in the resurrection, restoration, and flourishing of the renewed world.

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Eschatology

  • Daniela Rizzo

摘要

Eschatology is reimagined as a vision of renewal that embraces the whole community of creation, including non-human animals. Challenging anthropocentric frameworks that marginalise animals within Christian hope, the chapter argues that animals share in the Spirit’s redemptive future. Drawing on Pentecostal theology, ecotheology, and theologians such as Moltmann and Deane-Drummond, it proposes that the Spirit’s work includes advocating for suffering creatures, grieving ecological loss, and initiating the healing of damaged relationships between humans and animals. Eschatological hope therefore entails not the destruction of creation but its transformation, where animals participate in the resurrection, restoration, and flourishing of the renewed world.