Divine Eschatology and the God Who May Be: A Dialogue between Jürgen Moltman and Richard Kearney

Jürgen Moltmann’s understanding of hope includes personal, social, cosmic, and divine eschatology. Although the first three categories are delineated in depth, Moltmann’s discussion of divine eschatology, which he articulates as when God will be “all in all,” would benefit from further exploration. Richard Kearney has proposed a perspective of God as the eschatological God who may be, a future possibility of God who makes the impossible possible. Kearney’s position attempts to overcome the theist-atheist divide to talk about God again. This paper argues that Kearney’s philosophy of the eschatologically possibility of God helps to buttress Moltmann’s proposal of divine eschatology.