Eschatology In The Making

Author : Vicky Balabanski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521591376
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eschatology in the Making written by Vicky Balabanski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the expectations of the early church concerning the return of Christ and the end of the world were disappointed, the magnitude of the disappointment and the form in which it was expressed do not seem to fit with the expectations of modern scholars. This 1997 study questions both the idea that the delay of Christ's return - the parousia - was the primary factor shaping the development of eschatological expectation in the early church, and the linearity of the models used to understand the development of early Christian eschatology. Vicky Balabanski argues that Matthew's Gospel shows a more imminent expectation than Mark's, and that there were fluctuations in eschatological expectation caused by factors within these early communities and those of the Didache. She traces these fluctuations and offers some new interpretative keys to Mark 13, Matthew 24 and 25 and Didache 16, as well as some vivid and original historical reconstructions.

Author : Benjamin L. Gladd
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780801049606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making All Things New written by Benjamin L. Gladd and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think eschatology refers to events occurring at the end of history. In this book, two scholars with expertise in biblical eschatology argue that God's kingdom breaking into this world through Jesus Christ has inaugurated a new creation, a reality that should shape pastoral leadership and be reflected in the life and ministry of the church. Brief and accessibly written, this book articulates the practical implications of G. K. Beale's New Testament Biblical Theology and features an introductory chapter by Beale. Each chapter concludes with practical suggestions and a list of books for further study.

Author : Millard J. Erickson
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1585585807
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Basic Guide to Eschatology written by Millard J. Erickson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading evangelical theologian provides a comprehensive examination of the various evangelical views of the millennium (and other eschatological subjects).

Author : Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451470320
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Word written by Tiffany Eberle Kriner and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In scripture, Jesus promises a future that potentially infuses all texts: "my words will not pass away"(Matt 24:28). This book argues that texts--even literary texts--, have an eschatology, too, a part in God's purpose for the cosmos. They, with all creation, move toward participation in the new creation, in the Trinity's expanding, creative love. This eschatological future for texts impacts how we understand meaning making, from the level of semiology to that of hermeneutics. This book tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts. If texts have a future in the kingdom of God, then readers' engagements with them--everything from preservation and utterance to translation, criticism, and call and response--can cultivate those futures in the love of the Trinity. Kriner explores how the fallenness and failures of texts, alongside readers' own failures, while seeming to challenge the future of the word, ultimately point to reading as a posture of reconciliation, in which reader and text meet in the Maranatha of all text.

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780851114330
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resurrection and Moral Order written by Oliver O'Donovan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work makes a cogent and compelling case for Christian ethics based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Drawing on a profound knowledge both of the history of Christian thought and of contemporary ethical theology, Oliver O'Donovan illumines such important concepts as freedom, authority, nature, history, and revelation. This revised edition also includes an extensive new prologue in which the author enters into critical dialogue with four key figures in Christian ethics: John Finnis, Martin Honecker, Stanley Hauerwas, and Karl Barth.

Author : J. Richard Middleton
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441241388
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Heaven and a New Earth written by J. Richard Middleton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, more and more Christians have come to appreciate the Bible's teaching that the ultimate blessed hope for the believer is not an otherworldly heaven; instead, it is full-bodied participation in a new heaven and a new earth brought into fullness through the coming of God's kingdom. Drawing on the full sweep of the biblical narrative, J. Richard Middleton unpacks key Old Testament and New Testament texts to make a case for the new earth as the appropriate Christian hope. He suggests its ethical and ecclesial implications, exploring the difference a holistic eschatology can make for living in a broken world.

Author : Hans Schwarz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802847331
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eschatology written by Hans Schwarz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schwarz guides readers through the range of opinions on the subject of the future, telling how readers' understanding of eschatology has developed and laying out the factors that must be considered when speaking meaningfully about the Christian hope in the 21st century. He surveys the teachings about the future in the Old and New Testaments and addresses the views of Christian and secular thinkers throughout history.

Author : John E. Phelan Jr.
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830864652
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Eschatology written by John E. Phelan Jr. and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of end times often gets bogged down in minutiae that rarely affects daily life. Or we find ourselves passively waiting for God's future, Avoiding both of these traps, Essential Eschatology gets to the heart of the matter by examining how the Christian hope and practice of resurrection affects Christian mission and everyday life. Author John Phelan notes, "Eschatology is not about the end only but the beginning and middle of faith and life as well. Christianity...is eschatological to its core." Raised with Christ, Jesus' followers are called to practice resurrection, which reshapes relationships with our families, our neighbors and the world at large. "All that is anticipated in the new heavens and the new earth is to be lived out in the Christian community—a community that has already died and been raised with Christ." This creates within the world a unique community hope. Essential Eschatology explores Christian hope in relation to the failure of modernism living in the midst of empire the resurrection and judgment the kingdom of God and Christian mission the return of Jesus and the millennium God's promises to Israel In Essential Eschatology professors, students and pastors will find a sure guide in a frequently misunderstood and often confusing theological landscape. With the thoroughly biblical perspective found in this book, we discover the future spilling into the present.

Author : R. Kendall Soulen
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451416411
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God of Israel and Christian Theology written by R. Kendall Soulen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With acknowledgment that Christian theology contributed to the persecution and genocide of Jews comes a dilemma: how to excise the cancer without killing the patient? Kendall Soulen shows how important Christian assertions-the uniqueness of Jesus, the Christian covenant, the finality of salvation in Christ-have been formulated in destructive, supersessionist ways not only in the classical period (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus) and early modernity (Kant and Schleiermacher) but even contemporary theology (Barth and Rahner). Along with this first full-scale critique of Christian supersessionism, Soulen's own constructive proposal regraps the narrative unity of Christian identity and the canon through an original and important insight into the divine-human covenant, the election of Israel, and the meaning of history.

Author : Benjamin L. Gladd
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493402404
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making All Things New written by Benjamin L. Gladd and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think eschatology refers to events occurring at the end of history. In this book, two scholars with expertise in biblical eschatology argue that God's kingdom breaking into this world through Jesus Christ has inaugurated a new creation, a reality that should shape pastoral leadership and be reflected in the life and ministry of the church. Brief and accessibly written, this book articulates the practical implications of G. K. Beale's New Testament Biblical Theology and features an introductory chapter by Beale. Each chapter concludes with practical suggestions and a list of books for further study.