Tag: Eschatology

Free Download E J David Kramer, "Theologian of the Resurrection: N.T. Wright’s Eschatology and Mission Theology "
English | ISBN: 9004701850 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this study, N.T. Wright’s exceptional work on the resurrection is shown to form the centre of his eschatology and mission theology. Wright’s emphasis on the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection for the gospel’s missional encounter with the West is highlighted. By drawing out the significance of the resurrection for Wright’s eschatological narrative, the author sets the stage for Wright’s mission theology, focusing on the church, evangelism, political theology, and eschatological ethics. Wright’s emphasis on doing history is explained in terms of the theological conviction that, since God acted in history, historical study has become a sphere of missional engagement.

Free Download Luke Woo, "The Spatiotemporal Eschatology of Hebrews: Priestly Participation in the Heavenly Tabernacle "
English | ISBN: 0567714977 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 14 MB
There are two coexisting realities classified under New Testament eschatology: the temporal and spatial. While much scholarly attention has focused on the temporal, Luke Woo argues that the spatial aspect is either neglected or relegated to Platonic or cosmological categories. Woo thus seeks to provide a holistic understanding, by investigating these realities for believers under the heavenly tabernacle motif in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Woo posits that the author of Hebrews presents the heavenly tabernacle and all its high priestly activity in order to eschatologically situate, orient, and ground believers; thus enabling believers to actualize their heavenly, priestly identity by serving as priests on earth. Woo uses Edward Soja’s Tripartite Critical Spatiality to analyze the heavenly tabernacle’s Firstspace, Secondspace, and Thirdspace features found in Hebrews 4:14; 8:1-5; 9:1-14. He suggests that Christ, in his resurrection and ascension, enters an actualized, heavenly tabernacle, which allows believers to spiritually occupy that sanctuary space in the presence of God, establishing a spatial orientation for believers who can identify as heavenly priests and be motivated to serve as such as they live on earth.

Free Download Michael F. Cusato, "Poverty, Eschatology and the Medieval Church: Studies in Honor of David Burr "
English | ISBN: 9004547827 | 2023 | 498 pages | PDF | 24 MB
This collection of historical studies honors David Burr, emeritus professor at Virginia Tech. Representing some of the finest scholars in the field, the contributors touch upon the academic areas in which he has taught and published: the multi-faceted phenomenon of the Spiritual Franciscans (late 13th-early 14th century) and the life and writings of Peter of John Olivi in southern France.

Free Download W. Jakob Wirén, "Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality "
English | ISBN: 900435705X | 2017 | 328 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén analyses the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. In connection with this theme, he examines and compares different levels of inclusion and exclusion in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish eschatologies. He argues that a distinction should be made in approaches to this issue between soteriological openness and eschatological openness. By going beyond Christian theology and also looking to Muslim and Jewish sources and by combining the question of the religious Other with eschatology, Wirén explores ways of articulating Christian eschatology in light of religious otherness, and provides a new and vital slant to the threefold paradigm of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism that has been prevalent in the theology of religions.

Free Download Christian eschatology and the physical universe By Wilkinson, David
2010 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0567045455 | PDF | 3 MB
Does matter matter? The scientific picture of the end of the physical Universe has undergone dramatic changes since the turn of the 21st century, with its future characterized by accelerated expansion and futility. Yet Christian theology has been largely silent on this, despite the interest in eschatology in popular culture and in theology itself. What can Christian theology learn from and contribute to the scientific picture of the future of the Universe? Can the biblical narratives of creation and new creation have a fruitful dialogue with scientific discoveries? David Wilkinson shows what a fruitful dialogue this can be. Critiquing the folk eschatology of the Left Behind series, the misguided faith of the scientific optimists and the lack of scientific engagement of the theologians of hope, Wilkinson argues for a rediscovery of the theological theme of new creation and the centrality of bodily resurrection

Free Download Jonathan A. Cook, "Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of "Moby-Dick""
English | ISBN: 150176165X | 2021 | 358 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville’s abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville’s creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.

Free Download Joshua Wise, "Dread and Hope: Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture "
English | ISBN: 1978708165 | 2022 | 174 pages | EPUB | 312 KB
Christianity was born in the midst of great expectation and fear about the world’s future. The existing Jewish paradigm of the coming Messiah, his antithesis, and the initiation of the coming age set the stage for Christian beliefs about the end of the current age. However, the unexpected death and resurrection of Jesus caused that paradigm to be reformed within the burgeoning Christian faith, reshaping hopes, and reworking old patterns.