Eschatological Sex

Abstract

This article explores how descriptions of the eschatological life might creatively include sexual examples, and in turn, how descriptions of eschatological sex might inform sexual ethics for present Christian communities. Eschatological sex is here explored via cataphatic theology (i.e., theological descriptions that draw on relatable objects or experiences metaphorically); noting that eschatological sexual metaphors have an ethical utility. Namely, because eschatological metaphors tend to access qualitative categories of “blessed” or “best” states of being, the relationship between eschatology and ethics can be reflexive. To that end, this article suggests that whatever metaphors are used to describe the eschatological life can inform (in part) how it is that Christians might inhabit the reign of God, presently, as both a theological and moral concern.