At the risk of oversimplification, Pannenberg views history as the unfolding of God’s self-demonstration of his divinity to humanity. Theology is a human attempt to understand and articulate this divine self-disclosure in the form of praise. This praise—both in the life of individual Christians who dedicate themselves to the contemplation and glorification of God’s being and over the course of salvation history itself—grows increasingly adequate and appropriate over time as the kingdom is drawn towards its eschatological fulfillment. As the preceding chapters aim to show, this
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