The following is a guest post by El Jefe.
The article under discussion is by Peter Kreeft, a theologian who teaches at Boston University. He answers the “35 questions most commonly asked about heaven.”
I was interested in his reply to question 2: “Why won’t we be bored in Heaven?” “I suspect this question subconsciously bothers most of us more than we like to admit. I can remember having something of a crisis of faith as a child: I thought I didn’t want to go to Heaven since the popular pictures of it seemed pretty boring to me. Freud, who occasionally comes up with nuggets of wisdom sandwiched between mountains of nonsense, says that everyone needs two things to make life worth living: love and work. The two are really one, for love is a work and work is a love. Love is a work, for it is something you do, not something you just feel or fall into. And work must be a love, for if not, it is threatening and boring.” Not quite as good as being God’s partners in Creation, but it’s a start. His answer to #4 is somewhat laughable. #9 and #10 are a cop-out. #14 is ok, but he doesn’t understand what we know of the temple and gender differences. #17 is quite good, he doesn’t have any understanding of celestialized. #26, he thinks age 33. Maybe, but I’d put it a little younger–I’m not sure it has much meaning. #34 is another one were I see him inching toward Mormonism.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting speculation on his part about subject that traditional Christianity has not only had very few answers, but hasn’t even asked the questions. It goes along with the Catholic Church and its apparent backing away from the dogma of “limbo” and moving (ever so slowly) toward some thing more similar to divine revelation that we have.