Girlfriend in an (eschatological) coma

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For some reason Douglas Coupland’s ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ came to mind the other day…

(Umm, warning, there may be spoilers ahead. But then it’s not a thriller ;-)

…and it struck me that this is really an interesting example of how eschatology should influence life. In the book some friends live to see the end of the world. They then have the opportunity to go back and live in the light of what they have seen. For them it was a world that ends in a whimper — with all slowing going to sleep. So, their ‘living in the light of’ was to live against this.

It seems to me that, for Christians, there should be a similar ‘living in the light of’ the future. We should allow the prophetic imagination to shape ours. Then we live in this context and allow it to shape how we act. Of course, for us the future vision is different – we live with the hope that God will put the world to rights and re-creatre all things. Consequently, we live for rather than against our vision. But the parallels are interesting.

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Permalink | July 29th, 2007

One Response to “Girlfriend in an (eschatological) coma”

  1. jonnyjpg Says:
    jonnyjpg July 31st, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    excellent.
    i need to read that book again.

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