ESCHATOLOGICAL VISION OF SYRO MALABAR EUCHARISTIC LITURGY
Keywords:
Time and End-Time in the Christian Tradition, Jewish Tradition, Christian Synthesis, Eschatological Vision of the Syriac Christian Tradition / Syriac Orient, Syro Malabar Eucharistic Liturgy, Liturgical Time and Spatial Orientation, Liturgical Time: Foretaste of the Eschatological Time, Sunday: Embodiment of Eschatological Time, Spatial Orientation, Moving towards the East: Moving towards the Lord, Eschatological Vision of the Eucharistic Liturgy Proper, Death and Sheol, Resurrection of the Dead, Parousia, Heavenly Life, Concept of HellAbstract
Human beings are oriented towards the future, though they stand on the past and act in the present. Time, in the Christian tradition, starts from God and ends in God. Eschatology is the systematic reflection on the end times and the heavenly realities. From a Christian point of view, Jesus through his incarnation, life, death and resurrection inaugurated the eschatological kingdom. Church is the visible sign of this reality. She commemorates and celebrates this eschatological reality in Jesus Christ in her liturgy and looks forward to the future glory with her heavenly bridegroom. Liturgy as one of the main locus theologicus of the Christian tradition we try to reflect on the end times and the heavenly realities, based on the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Syro Malabar Church of the East Syriac tradition.
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