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Christian understandings of the future : the historical trajectory / Amy Frykholm

By: Material type: TextSeries: Christian understandingsPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2016]Description: 366 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1451484577
  • 9781451484571
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 236 FRY
LOC classification:
  • BT819.5 .F79 2016
Contents:
Christian futures: an introduction -- Part I. Origins. Prophecies and riddles: Jewish prophetic and apocalyptic traditions -- Parables and resurrection: already and not yet in the Jesus tradition -- Seeds and sheafs: the eschatology of the Apostle Paul -- Alpha and omega: the book of Revelation -- Part II. Historical developments. Martyrs: early Christianity -- Time: Origen -- Patriae: Augustine of Hippo -- Legends: Pseudo-Methodius and the Antichrist -- Sketches: Gregory the Great -- Songs: Celtic sources -- Polemics: Bernard and Hildegard -- Patterns: Joachim of Fiore -- Circles: Dante Alighieri -- Visions: Julian of Norwich and the Black Plague -- Maps: Christopher Columbus -- Urgency: Martin Luther -- Taxonomies: Isaac Newton and John Donne -- Anxieties: John Calvin, Increase Mather, and Second Advent theologians -- Images: virgins of the apocalypse -- Liberation: eschatology and enslaved Africans in North America -- Jeremiads: Jonathan Edwards and the American republic -- Utopies: postmillennial America -- Charts: prophecy belief 1850-1950 -- Part III. Contemporary challenges. Theories: from Albert Schweitzer to Karl Rahner -- Protests: from Martin Luther King Jr. to Leymah Gbowee -- Clocks: the atomic age -- Failures: the limits of Christian futures -- Questions: science and Christian eschatology -- Towardness
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Includes bibliographical references (page 349) and index

Christian futures: an introduction -- Part I. Origins. Prophecies and riddles: Jewish prophetic and apocalyptic traditions -- Parables and resurrection: already and not yet in the Jesus tradition -- Seeds and sheafs: the eschatology of the Apostle Paul -- Alpha and omega: the book of Revelation -- Part II. Historical developments. Martyrs: early Christianity -- Time: Origen -- Patriae: Augustine of Hippo -- Legends: Pseudo-Methodius and the Antichrist -- Sketches: Gregory the Great -- Songs: Celtic sources -- Polemics: Bernard and Hildegard -- Patterns: Joachim of Fiore -- Circles: Dante Alighieri -- Visions: Julian of Norwich and the Black Plague -- Maps: Christopher Columbus -- Urgency: Martin Luther -- Taxonomies: Isaac Newton and John Donne -- Anxieties: John Calvin, Increase Mather, and Second Advent theologians -- Images: virgins of the apocalypse -- Liberation: eschatology and enslaved Africans in North America -- Jeremiads: Jonathan Edwards and the American republic -- Utopies: postmillennial America -- Charts: prophecy belief 1850-1950 -- Part III. Contemporary challenges. Theories: from Albert Schweitzer to Karl Rahner -- Protests: from Martin Luther King Jr. to Leymah Gbowee -- Clocks: the atomic age -- Failures: the limits of Christian futures -- Questions: science and Christian eschatology -- Towardness

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