Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Setting the Scene -- 2 Image of God as both Fount and Destiny of Humanity -- Actualisation of the Image of God -- How the Image of God is to be Realised -- What Constitutes the Image of God -- Human Destiny as Common Destiny -- Further Evaluation of Herder in Relation to Pannenberg -- Human Destiny based on Proleptic Christology -- Significance of Jesus' Resurrection for Human Destiny -- 3 Openness of Humanity -- Experiencing Oneself in Terms of the World -- To What is Humankind Open? -- Openness to the World as Beyond Death into God's Eternity -- Openness to the World in the Light of Historicity of Humanity -- 4 Sin as an Antithesis to Human Destiny -- Pannenberg in the Augustinian Tradition of the Doctrine of Sin -- Sin in the Perspective of Openness to the World -- Sin as Passivity to Destiny and Human Creatureliness -- 5 Eschatology and Ethics in Human Destiny -- Is It a Moral Destiny? -- A Destiny Oriented to the Future -- Content of Eschatological Destiny: Kingdom of God -- Actualisation of Human Destiny: Arrival of the Kingdom of God -- Ethics and Eschatology: How Far Apart? -- 6 Theological Anthropology: Destiny-centred, History-focused -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.