God and the Future: Pannenberg's Eschatological Doctrine of God

This book is an invaluable introduction to the theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg, one of the world's foremost systematic theologians. In this critical evaluation, Christiaan Mostert identifies the main streams in Pannenberg's thought and enables the serious reader of theology to access Pannenberg's individual works, including the three-volume Systematic Theology which has made such an important contribution to the current discussion of trinitarian theology. Mostert also sets Pannenberg's theology in the broadest context of contemporary philosophical and theological thought.

According to Pannenberg, the future has already arrived; Jesus' resurrection from the dead, together with his message of the nearness of God's kingdom, has brought an eschatological salvation into our midst. Mostert shows how Pannenberg's view of a comprehensive future salvation brings together two aspects of the Christian doctrine of God: the principle that God's being is God's rule and the idea that the kingdom of God is demonstrated in God's eschatological rule over all creation.