History And Eschatology

Author : N. T. Wright,Nicholas Thomas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019
Category : Eschatology
ISBN : 0281081646

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History and Eschatology by N. T. Wright,Nicholas Thomas Wright Pdf

Building on his critically acclaimed Gifford Lectures, N. T. Wright presents a richly nuanced case for a theology based on a renewed understanding of historical knowledge.The question of 'natural theology' interlocks with the related questions of how we can conceive of God acting in the world, and of why, if God is God, the world is full of evil. Can specific events in history, like those reported in the Gospels, afford the necessary point from which to answer such questions? Widely shared cultural and philosophical assumptions have conditioned our understanding of history in ways that make the idea of divine action in history problematic. But could better historical study itself win from ancient Jewish and Christian cosmology and eschatology a renewed way of understanding the relationship between God and the world? N. T. Wright argues that this can indeed be done, and in this ground-breaking book he develops a distinctive approach to natural theology grounded in what he calls an 'epistemology of love'. This approach arises from his reflection on the significance of the ancient concept of the 'new creation' for our understanding the reality of the world, the reality of God and their relation to one another.

Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281081691

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History and Eschatology by N. T. Wright Pdf

‘This is Wright at his best – exegete, theologian, churchman, and public intellectual rolled into one.’ Miroslav Volf ‘Wright’s crowning achievement.’ John Cottingham Building on his critically acclaimed Gifford Lectures, N. T. Wright presents a richly nuanced case for a theology based on a renewed understanding of historical knowledge. The question of 'natural theology' interlocks with the related questions of how we can conceive of God acting in the world, and of why, if God is God, the world is full of evil. Can specific events in history, like those reported in the Gospels, afford the necessary point from which to answer such questions? Widely shared cultural and philosophical assumptions have conditioned our understanding of history in ways that make the idea of divine action in history problematic. But could better historical study itself win from ancient Jewish and Christian cosmology and eschatology a renewed way of understanding the relationship between God and the world? N. T. Wright argues that this can indeed be done, and in this ground-breaking book he develops a distinctive approach to natural theology grounded in what he calls an 'epistemology of love'. This approach arises from his reflection on the significance of the ancient concept of the 'new creation' for our understanding the reality of the world, the reality of God and their relation to one another.

Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019
Category : Eschatology
ISBN : 1481309625

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History and Eschatology by N. T. Wright Pdf

How can we know about God? That question increasingly bothered scientists and philosophers in the modern period as they chipped away at previously imagined "certainties." They refused to take on trust the "special revelation" of the Christian Bible, trying instead to argue up to God from the "natural" world. That is the theme of the Gifford Lectures, inaugurated over 130 years ago. This natural theology has usually bracketed out the Bible and Jesus--and with them, usually, the scholars who study them. History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann's dehistoricized approach, N. T. Wright argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being--part of the "natural world"--there is no reason the historical Jesus should be off-limits. What would happen if we brought him back into the discussion? What, in particular, might "history" and "eschatology" really mean? And what might that say about "knowledge" itself? This lively and wide-ranging discussion invites us to see Jesus himself in a different light by better acquainting ourselves with the first-century Jewish world. Genuine historical study challenges not only what we thought we knew but how we know it. The crucifixion of the subsequently resurrected Jesus, as solid an event as any in the "natural" world, turns out to meet, in unexpected and suggestive ways, the puzzles of the ultimate questions asked by every culture. At the same time, these events open up vistas of the eschatological promise held out to the entire natural order. The result is a larger vision, both of "natural theology" and of Jesus himself, than either the academy or the church has normally expected.

Author : Rudolf Bultmann
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : History
ISBN : 0837181232

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The Presence of Eternity by Rudolf Bultmann Pdf

Author : Panayiotis Tzamalikos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047428695

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Origen: Philosophy of History & Eschatology by Panayiotis Tzamalikos Pdf

Against claims that Origen causes History to evaporate into barren idealism, his theology is shown to have no other source and aim than historical occurences. Fronting assertions that he has no eschatological ideas, this Eschatology is explicated in all its clarity. Light is cast upon the Aristotelian character of Origen’s doctrine of apokatastasis, proving this based on ontological necessity, not a historical one.

Author : R. C. Sproul
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781585580927

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The Last Days according to Jesus by R. C. Sproul Pdf

A trusted theologian analyzes what Jesus said about his return and the last days.

Author : Thomas P. Rausch
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814680513

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Eschatology, Liturgy and Christology by Thomas P. Rausch Pdf

"If Christian hope is reduced to the salvation of the soul in a heaven beyond death," wrote Jürgen Moltmann, "it loses its power to renew life and change the world, and its flame is quenched." Thomas Rausch, SJ, agrees, arguing that too often the hoped-for eschaton has been replaced by an almost exclusive emphasis on the "four last things"-death and judgment, heaven and hell. But eschatology cannot be reduced to the individual salvation. In his new book, Rausch explores eschatology's intersections with Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and, perhaps most intriguingly, liturgy. With the early Christians, he sees God's future as a radically social reality, already present initially in Christian worship, especially in the celebration of the Eucharist. This fresh and insightful work of theology engages voices both ancient and contemporary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Jerry L. Walls Professor of Philosophy of Religion Asbury Theological Seminary
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199727636

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The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology by Jerry L. Walls Professor of Philosophy of Religion Asbury Theological Seminary Pdf

Eschatology is the study of the last things: death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world. Through centuries of Christian thoughtfrom the early Church fathers through the Middle Ages and the Reformationthese issues were of the utmost importance. In other religions, too, eschatological concerns were central. After the Enlightenment, though, many religious thinkers began to downplay the importance of eschatology which, in light of rationalism, came to be seen as something of an embarrassment. The twentieth century, however, saw the rise of phenomena that placed eschatology back at the forefront of religious thought. From the rapid expansion of fundamentalist forms of Christianity, with their focus on the end times; to the proliferation of apocalyptic new religious movements; to the recent (and very public) debates about suicide, martyrdom, and paradise in Islam, interest in eschatology is once again on the rise. In addition to its popular resurgence, in recent years some of the worlds most important theologians have returned eschatology to its former position of prominence. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology will provide an important critical survey of this diverse body of thought and practice from a variety of perspectives: biblical, historical, theological, philosophical, and cultural. This volume will be the primary resource for students, scholars, and others interested in questions of our ultimate existence.

Author : Jacob Taubes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804760287

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Occidental Eschatology by Jacob Taubes Pdf

Occidental Eschatology is a study of apocalypticism and its effects on Western philosophy. One of the great Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, Taubes published only this one book during his life, and here the English translation finally becomes available.

Author : Erkki Koskenniemi
Publisher : Abo Akademi University
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9521239417

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David, Messianism, and Eschatology by Erkki Koskenniemi Pdf

During the Second Temple period and the first centuries CE, the Book of Psalms grew to become one of the most popular books of the Hebrew Bible. As a book related to David, the important king of the past, it enjoyed a prime place in both Christian and Jewish traditions. Given the ambiguous portrayal of David and his relation to the psalms in the Hebrew Bible itself, it is not surprising that the continuous interaction with psalms over time also bears witness to various attempts to manage this ambiguity. As David and the psalms became related not only to Israel's historical past, but also to its eschatological future, including the notion of messianism, the emerging picture is diverse, and it has long been a subject for scholarly inquiry. This book enters into this discussion by providing new and thought provoking answers to the long standing questions. Twelve renowned scholars provide contributions dealing with material ranging from ancient Ugaritic texts to early Christian and Jewish writers, including the books of the Hebrew Bible, the literature of the late Second Temple period, and the New Testament.

Author : Richard Davis Phillips,Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596382511

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These Last Days by Richard Davis Phillips,Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer Pdf

Specifically, it is about ôthe present evil ageö that we live in right now. For many Christians, the expression ôthese last daysö refers to the time right before the second coming of Christ-but according to the apostles, the last days started with the first coming of Christ and continue even today.

Author : Harold R. Eberle,Martin Trench
Publisher : Worldcast Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1882523334

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Victorious Eschatology by Harold R. Eberle,Martin Trench Pdf

Here it is - a biblically-based, optimistic view of the future. Along with a historical perspective, Harold R. Eberle and Martin Trench present a clear undrstanding of Matthew 24 and other key passages about the events to precede the return of Jesus Christ. Satan is not going to take over this world. Jesus Christ is Lord and He will reign until every enemy is put under His feet?

Author : J. Richard Middleton
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441241382

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A New Heaven and a New Earth by J. Richard Middleton Pdf

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 : TOM WRIGHT
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281085125

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God and the Pandemic by TOM WRIGHT Pdf

‘Superbly written, utterly Bible based. . . Do not hesitate!’ Archbishop Justin Welby What are we supposed to think about the coronavirus crisis? Some people think they know: ‘This is a sign of the End,’ they say. ‘It’s all predicted in the book of Revelation.’ Others disagree but are equally clear: ‘This is a call to repent. God is judging the world and through this disease he’s telling us to change.’ Some join in the chorus of blame and condemnation: ‘It’s the fault of the Chinese, the government, the World Health Organization...' Tom Wright examines these reactions to the virus and finds them wanting. Instead, he invites you to consider a different way of seeing and responding – a way that draws on the teachings and examples of scripture, and above all on the way of living, thinking and praying revealed to us by Jesus.