Inaugurated Eschatology: A Time Travel Story

This article aims to provide an explication of an influential conceptualisation of the Christian notion of ‘inaugurated eschatology’. This influential conception of eschatology has been proposed by N.T. Wright; however, an intelligibility issue is identified here, which needs to be addressed if this conception is to be affirmed. Hence, a philosophical model of this conception is formulated through the utilisation of the temporal ontology of Priority Presentism introduced by Sam Baron and a specific interpretation of the Moving Objective Present model of time travel, inspired by Sara Bernstein and others. This model enables inaugurated eschatology to be explicated in a clear and consistent manner, and the important intelligibility issue will be shown to have been successfully dealt with.