Apocalyptic Grace
Apocalyptic Grace

Author: Stephen Powell

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-05-20

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1462872204

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Here is a unique exploration of the five eras or Worlds of cultural (socioeconomic, psychological, spiritual) evolution. Stephen Powell, a seasoned anthropologist and psychotherapist, illuminates the hunter/gatherer, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial/technological epochs in unexpectedly fresh and timely ways. Foremost, the diversity of these Worlds is still within us all. World One, reaching back to 50,000 BCE, was a time of widely accepted shamanic assumptions. World Two (10,000 to 3500 BCE) developed small-scale horticulture and tribal cohesion, but also unprecedented social conformity. World Three (from about 3500 BCE) experienced the global rise of caste-structured hierarchies with the World Religions as cultural compensation. Beginning in the 1600s, World Four developed a mechanistic, secularized worldview, accentuated by individualism, popular culture and a capitalist agenda. Finally, Powell describes the beginnings of a new, fifth set of world assumptions a world without borders. Here we may start to integrate humanitarian aspects of the preceding Worlds, embracing multiculturalism without losing cultural integrity. Moreover, the wisdom traditions from each time appear to hold seed truths of the profound changes that mark the end-time and the beginning of each World. Apocalyptic Grace leads the reader on a stunning survey of this remarkable journey.

Militant Grace
Militant Grace

Author: Philip G. Ziegler

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1493413163

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This clear and comprehensive introduction to apocalyptic theology demonstrates the significance of apocalyptic readings of the New Testament for systematic theology and highlights the ethical implications of the apocalyptic turn in biblical and theological studies. Written by a leading theologian and proponent of apocalyptic theology, this primer explores the impact of important recent Pauline scholarship on contemporary theology and argues for a renewed understanding of key Christian doctrines, including sin, grace, revelation, redemption, and the Christian life.

History as Apocalypse
History as Apocalypse

Author: Thomas J. J. Altizer

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1985-06-30

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0791494667

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History as Apocalypse is a reenactment of the history of the Western consciousness from the Homeric and Biblica revolutions through Finnegans Wake. This occurs through a historical, literary, and theological analysis of the Christian epic tradition. While attention is focused primarily upon Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce, the Classical and Biblical foundations of the Christian epic are explored with the intention of discovering an organic unity in the evolution of the Western consciousness. Our primary epics are identified as revolutionary breakthroughs, not only as transformations of consciousness but also records of social revolutions. The Christian epic is both a consequence and a primary embodiment of the decisive historical revolutions, revolutions culminating with the ending of our historical evolution.

The Apocalyptic Paul
The Apocalyptic Paul

Author: Jamie Davies

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1532681941

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The Apocalyptic Paul is rapidly becoming one of the most influential contemporary approaches to the apostle's letters, and one which has generated its share of controversy. Critiques of the movement have come from all sides: Pauline specialists, scholars of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, and systematic theologians have all raised critical questions. Meanwhile, many have found it a hard conversation to enter, not least because of the contested nature of its key terms and convictions. Non-specialists can find it difficult to sift through these arguments and to become familiar with the history of this movement, its most important contemporary voices, and its key claims. In the first part of this book, New Testament scholar Jamie Davies offers a retrospective introduction to the conversation, charting its development from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, surveying the contemporary situation. In the second part, Davies explores a more prospective account of the challenges and questions that are likely to energize discussion in the future, before offering some contributions to the apocalyptic reading of Paul through an interdisciplinary conversation between the fields of New Testament scholarship, Second Temple Jewish apocalypticism, and Christian systematic theology.

Paul, Theologian of God’s Apocalypse
Paul, Theologian of God’s Apocalypse

Author: Martinus C. de Boer

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 153268682X

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This collection of essays argues that Paul's articulation of Christ and his saving work makes use of the categories and perspectives of ancient Jewish apocalyptic eschatology. Such eschatology is concerned with the expectation that God will finally and irrevocably put an end to the present order of reality ("this age") and replace it with a new, transformed order of reality ("the age to come"). In Paul's view, God has initiated this eschatological act of cosmic rectification in the person and work of Christ. The essays included, two of them previously unpublished, investigate and illuminate various aspects of Paul's christologically focused appropriation of ancient Jewish apocalyptic eschatology, particularly in his letters to the Galatians and the Romans. The collection begins with the author's seminal essay on the two tracks of Jewish apocalyptic eschatology (forensic and cosmological) from 1989 and ends with an essay from 2016 containing the author's retrospective restatement and elaboration of his views.