ABSTRACT
In transfigured status the cosmos along with all of its prior evolution will continue to remain deeply implicated in the world’s eventual eschatological fulfilment. To bring evolution, eschatology, and ecology together, may seem to be an awkward proposal. An eschatological-evolutionary ecological vision resists the absolutizing of nature to which an exaggerated sacramentalism may be prone. As evolutionary thinking itself clearly implies, even science agrees that nature and history are inseparable notions. Evolutionary biology, geology, physics, and even astronomy have shown that the cosmos itself is a restless adventure. The notion of nature as promise brings together into a coherent vision the three domains of ecology, evolution, and eschatology. In the Bible there is already an explicit connection between nature and promise. Construing nature’s evolution in terms of the biblical theme of promise has additional implications for ecological theology and ethics.
