My argument would be, therefore, that the church is called in the broadest sense to a post-eschatological imitation of the Jesus who embodies in himself the completeness of creation.

I have had a number of discussions in the past with those of the realised eschatology position, sometimes known as preterite theology. I have a lot of sympathy with this viewpoint and partly because the picture of New Jerusalem in Revelation is so obviously about the Church as it should be in the present age. However, my query with them is analogous to my query to you, which, put simply, is that the term ‘post-eschatalogical’ is self-defeating.