Abstract
In dealing with a central problem of Christian eschatology Protestant and Catholic theologians have proposed significantly different solutions in recent years: while we find a conscious distancing from the notion of the immortality of the soul in Protestant theology, this notion is largely reinterpreted but not discarded by Catholic theologians. How should we interpret these findings? Does the fact of the difference between the approaches point to different forms of expression of the Christian consciousness of faith? Or should we interpret the difference merely as different dogmatic interpretations of a shared Christian hope? In order to assess these findings this essay develops the theme in four parts. First of all, the background and the reasons for seeing the immortality of the soul as a problem in modernity are re-assessed. Secondly, the significance of the crisis of classical metaphysics for the dogmatic exposition of eschatology is examined. The third part offers a sketch of the main tenets and aporias of the Christain hope of resurrection. The fourth part presents an attempt at providing herme-neutic clarification on the problem of immortality of the soul in ecumenical perspective.
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