Heaven, as the eternal home of the divine Man and of all the redeemed members of the human race, must necessarily be thoroughly human in its structure, conditions, and activities. Its joys and its occupations must all be rational, moral, emotional, voluntary, and active. There must be the exercise of all faculties, the gratification of all tastes, the development of all talent capacities, the realization of all ideals. The reason, the intellectual curiosity, the imagination, the aesthetic instincts, the holy affections, the social affinities, the inexhaustible resources of strength and power native to the human soul, must all find in heaven exercise and satisfaction.
— A.A. Hodge (1823–1886), Theologe
Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Meaning & Identity
Occasions: For Reflection
A.A. Hodge
Archibald Alexander Hodge (1823–1886) war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor und Theologieprofessor, der vor allem am Princeton Theological Seminary lehrte. Als Vertreter der reformierten „Old Princeton Theology“ prägte er durch seine Schriften maßgeblich das konservative Verständnis der Verbalinspiration und Irrtumslosigkeit der biblischen Urtexte. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine didaktisch klare Darlegung klassischer reformierter Dogmatik, während theologische Kritiker seiner Schriftauffassung eine zu scholastisch-rationalistische Prägung vorhalten.
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