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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"eschatology"”.
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The Eschatology Scholarship Database
The Eschatology Scholarship Database is a collaborative digital archive that explores the ethics of misinformation, memory, and apocalypse. Styled as a future-facing wiki, the project invites contributors to imagine themselves as posthuman entities reconstructing the end of the world from …
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
Early modern English Catholic eschatology, the belief that the present was the last age and an associated concern with mankind’s destiny, has been overlooked in the historiography. Historians have established that early modern Protestants had an eschatological understanding of the present. This …
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The shaping of John Nelson Darby’s Eschatology
… dispensationalism that has shaped evangelical eschatology ever since. It owed its debut to John Nelson Darby, who espoused the centrality of the “two peoples of God.” Dispensationalism affirmed three cardinal doctrines: first, a sharp dichotomy between the two peoples of God—national Israel and …
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Trading Futures: Future-Talk, Finance, and Christian Eschatology
Standard textbooks describe finance as the field of economics that concerns itself with the future. This dissertation suggests instead that financial discourse conjures a particular mode of future-talk, one that renders the future as somehow predictable, manageable, and profitable. This mode of …
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Cosmic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… view is that Hebrews combines Jewish apocalyptic eschatology with Platonic cosmology and thus depicts the eschatological annihilation of the material world. I counter that Platonic cosmology offers a poor background for cosmic annihilation and argue that Hebrews actually describes the world’s …
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The Beginning of the End: The Eschatology of Genesis
… coherent (though variegated) restoration</p><p>eschatology. This prophetic eschatology shares mythic traditions with Genesis, using those</p><p>traditions typologically to point to Israel's future hope. Taken together, Genesis and the prophetic</p><p>corpus identify Israel as a precious seed, …
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The Catholic Apostolic Church: its history, ecclesiology, liturgy and eschatology
… basis than the Eucharist alone. The chapter on "eschatology" provides a new analysis of the sources of Catholic Apostolic eschatology (for the first time including an examination of the work of Lacunza) and of the eschatological understanding of the rites. Finally, the underlying common themes …
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and Ecclesial Enactments of Eschatology
… of biblicism and biblical literalism form an eschatology which subordinates ecclesiology and Christology, nurturing an imagination of the roles of Christ and the church in time and space which sever social ethics from necessary Christological and ecclesiological sources. John Howard Yoder’s …
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The Historical Development of Seventh-day Adventist Eschatology 1884-1895
… key elements of the Millerite premillennialist eschatology, they added some unique features.</p> <p>For example, they added: a sanctuary theology concerning Christ's mediatorial ministry and His work in a heavenly pre-advent judgment, the "third angel's message" (announced in Rev 14:12), and …
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Seeds and Bodies: Cosmology, Anthropology and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49
This study examines 1 Corinthians 15:35-49, a passage that has caused scholarly puzzlement. The content of Paul’s argument has been generally understood to emphasise discontinuity between the present human body and the body of the resurrection. However, Paul’s use of the seed motif then seems to …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
This dissertation explores the utopian and dystopian tones of apocalypticism in medieval secular literature and how literary authors treated the end of time. Beginning with two different representational models of medieval apocalyptic, notably those of St Augustine of Hippo and of Joachim of Fiore, …
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Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project
<p>In contemporary philosophy, there exists a vigorous debate between those thinkers who advocate the need for a truth that exists outside of historical forces and those who hold that all understanding must be historical in its basis. My research is focused on deciphering this problem by providing …
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The relationship between eschatology and ethics in the Synoptic Gospels: the problem of relevancy
Abstract available: p. [1-4]
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The theology of judgement in the Fourth Gospel: christology and eschatology in John 5
… believers and one for the rest of humanity. The eschatology which John 5 presents for Christian believers is one in which they have been exempted from any end-time judgement process, but have already obtained the salvific benefit of eternal life which they shall continue to enjoy in a heavenly …
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Paul’s Theology of Preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 from the Perspective of Apocalyptic Eschatology
… though scholars widely affirm the importance of eschatology in theology and recognize the unmistakable rise of apocalyptic eschatology in Pauline studies, how that affects Paul’s theology of preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 has yet to be researched. This dissertation draws upon Pauline studies …
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Violence for a Peaceful End: Rhetorical Violence, Fundamentalist Eschatology, and the Interpretive Tradition of Revelation
<p>With the rise of extremist fundamentalist groups, such as ISIS, it is important to note similar happenings in other traditions. This thesis traces the interpretive tradition of the Book of Revelation, from its composition in 90 C.E. through the dispensationalist usage of it by John Nelson Darby …
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