Eternal Life
...the New Testament claims that "eternal life" is "eternal" not because it is above or beyond history (ahistorical in some sense), but because it is eschatological. Specifically, it is the resurrection life that has been revealed, in Christ, at the end of history and, by the power of the Spirit, comes to us out of that consummation.
Richard Gaffin, Resurrection and Redemption: How Eschatology and The Gospel Relate, Modern Reformation (Philadelphia, PA: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 1999), 25