In this essay I offer a novel interpretation of Calvin's eschatological imagination and the ways the latter shapes Calvin's overall theological narrative. In addition to his explicit, infralapsarian eschatology, which circles around the reconciling work of the incarnate Christ, Calvin also has an implicit, supralapsarian eschatology, according to which human beings were created for an upward journey toward God, mediated by the non-incarnate divine Word. Tracing the contours of this eschatology sheds new light on Calvin's account of mediation, incarnation, and expiation, his understanding of the end of Christ's mediatory work, and the contemporary discussion about Calvin and deification.

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“没有中保就无法接近上帝”：约翰加尔文的超堕落末世叙事

在这篇文章中，我对加尔文的末世想象以及后者塑造加尔文整体神学叙事的方式进行了新颖的解释。除了围绕着化身基督的和好工作的明确的、超堕落的末世论之外，加尔文还有一种隐含的、超堕落的末世论，根据该论，人类被创造是为了向上旅程走向上帝，由非化身的神圣作为中介。单词。追溯这种末世论的轮廓，为加尔文对中介、道成肉身和赎罪的描述、他对基督中介工作结束的理解以及当代关于加尔文和神化的讨论提供了新的启示。