Eschatology

Timothy Weber has likened the early dispensationalists to spectators in a stadium, watching history unfold on the playing field below. There were very few among them who believed they could or should play any role in the fulfilment of prophecy except to be watchful and personally prepared. Although conscious to be living at the close of history, the vast majority of Evangelical Zionists believed that only God could move the hands of the prophetic clock. They consequently shunned earthly…

to the present, but because they represent two signal inheritors of the Protestant theology of crisis. Accordingly, Cone and Jenson will be compared in terms of how they relate eschatology to history. The argument is in short that Cone and Jenson both inherit a set of problematics concerning the relation between eschatology and history found in dialectical theology’s language of crisis, and develop their projects from this common point of departure. They differ in terms of how crisis is…

then, as I suggested above, is crucially not a critique of eschatology, but a standpoint that looks to its language, knowing that the worlds against which and towards which eschatologies strain are internal to the distant and intimate words and stories of the people who tell them. This is to say, we are not forced to take leave of the question of eschatology in the descent into the ordinary; precisely in this descent we find that eschatology must be a question about the ordinariness of people…

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Eschatology gave birth to Christian awakening and the kingdom of God. And eschatology gave new meaning and hope to the Christian audience. Contextualization in the New Testament church is a process in which the missional church addresses and readdresses its values and needs to serve the audience…

motivation to believe that social change is necessary as spiritual renewal will only happen at the end of time. Recognizing that social renewal must take place for the “Negro Problem” to be solved, it becomes imperative that the church embrace an eschatology of spiritual renewal as an earthly and spiritual goal which will transform society. Consequently, the Kingdom of Heaven will take place on Earth and usher in the end of time as a…

(p.205) in which the theological doctrine of The Last Judgement had been so dominant, a fundamentally new conception of time and space was needed , which could ‘permit one to link real life (history) to real earth. It was necessary to oppose to eschatology a creative and generative time,…

early Church. Furthermore, Jesus was crucial in developing an eschatology, or a record for the end times, for the early Church. Christian eschatology is concerned primarily with the Second Coming of Christ. During the first-century AD, early Jewish beliefs fell into two schools of thought about eschatology: The Sadducees who did not believe in an afterlife, and the Pharisees who believed the opposite (NIV, Acts). But Christian eschatology developed key themes that include the afterlife, Hell,…

Levinas opposes this view with a different kind of eschatology which “institutes a relation with being beyond the totality or beyond history” . Eschatology here is defined by Levinas as “a relation with a surplus always exterior to…

The Journey of Modern Theology: Chapter 8 Dr. Durst when you gave us the choice of reading Chapter 8 “Theologians Look to the Future with Hope” (eschatology) or Chapter 12 “Postmodern Theologians Rebel against Modernity,” I knew I had to pick chapter 8. I believe that many Christians fear the topic of eschatology, because it is not clear as some other topics in the Bible. When I read Olson statement that "God does not yet exist" I must say that I was startled and perplexed. Olson says this…