What are They Saying About New Testament Apocalyptic? - Softcover

Lewis, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809142287 ISBN 13: 9780809142286

Verlag: Paulist Press International,U.S., 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Scott Lewis begins his volume focusing on New Testament apocalyptic with Albert Schweitzer's famous 19th-century book The Quest for the Historical Jesus that concludes that both the worldview and the message of Jesus were thoroughly apocalyptic. And he brings us to the present with the heated debates generated by the historical Jesus research of the last 20 years and the rebirth of apocalyptic fervor at the beginning of the new millennium. The book focuses on five areas: 1) the attempts since Schweitzer to define the apocalypse genre and its constituent eschatology and theology 2) the debate over the question concerning the nature of Jesus' teaching and proclamation, and whether the apocalyptic statements attributed to him are genuine or products of the early church 3) the apocalyptic nature of Paul's proclamation and the central role it plays in his moral exhortation, ecclesiology, and spirituality 4) the nature of the message of the Book of Revelation and the different approaches to its interpretation 5) the application of apocalyptic theology and eschatology to the life of the church in the form of preaching, ethics, spirituality, and social justice; and 6) a concluding reflection A special concern of the book is the reappropriation of the apocalyptic tradition by the modern church in a manner that avoids the many misuses of this genre in the past. To this end, it is most important that apocalyptic theology be recognized for what it is: a theology of hope rather than a theology of fear. +

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Scott Lewis, S.J., earned an SSL at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and an STD at the Gregorian University in Rome. He is assistant professor of New Testament at Regis College, part of the Toronto School of Theology.

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• Verlag: Paulist Press International,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809142287
• ISBN 13: 9780809142286
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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