Ratko Hrvaćanin
Belgrade

THE INFLUENCE ESCHATOLOGY ON ECCLESIOLOGY

ON THE WORKS OF ATANASIJE JEVTIC

Summary

Atanasije Jevtic access largely ecclesiology to the christology („christological ecclesiology") considering the term „Body of Christ" as the best possible definition of the Church by assuming thereby the same term is not individually Body of Christ, but the community of God, men and angels and what is happening in an outstanding way to the Eucharist. It is the anticipation of future life, because it shows that the Church has an eschatological perspective that means not simply some sort of progress toward an end, but towards the eschaton as an event (=Christ) in which all time and history contained, approached and superseded, ie. completed and brought into Eternal Kingdom. Center of history and its purpose and the fullness of eschatology is Christ, Who in the Church and the Church, introduces the eschaton, but „here and now" in history and this becomes the Holy Spirit. The Second Coming of Christ will not mean the end of the existence of the Church because Christ and the Church are identified, though not completely in the history.

Key words: ecclesiology, eschatology, Church, Kingdom of God, but not yet, here and now.