La contemporaneità del discepolo come prospettiva escatologica

The theme of eschatology is not recurrent in Kierkegaard’s works. Nevertheless the conjugation between temporality and eternity shown by Kierkegaard agrees with the way in which the eschatological conscience has been examined by the contemporary
theology. The connection present in Kierkegaard between historical time and eternal destination of the human being can be summed up under the theme of an eschatology of the present. This connection is cleared both under the ethical-religious
point of view by the concept of «repetition (Gjentagelse)» of the past looking at the future, and under the profile of the «contemporaneity» with Christ. The task of the spirit as synthesis of temporality and eternity is given in the constant anticipation/
participation of the ultimate. The future as finite figure of the eternal makes the life in the present authentic.

Keywords: Kierkegaard, contemporaneity, disciple, eschatology, repetition