Title: Eschatology and ethics in the teaching of Jesus /
Authors: Wilder, Amos N.
Date: 1939
Publisher: Harper & brothers,
Physical description: xiv, 253 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: The nature of Jewish eschatology -- The eschatological teaching of Jesus -- Historical and transcendental elements in Jesus' view of the future -- Eschatology and the sanction of the ethics -- Eschatology as sanction of the call to repentance -- Sanctions of reward and penalty -- The fundamental sanctions -- The significance of the eschatological sanctions -- Eschatology and the differentia of the ethics -- The messianic times and the new yoke of the kingdom -- Discipleship to Jesus in the crisis of the kingdom -- Conclusion to part II. sources of the differentia of the ethics -- Ethics transcended : the yoke of the Messiah.
Notes: "First edition." "Based upon a dissertation, here largely recast and rewritten, presented to the faculty of the Graduate school of Yale university in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy [1933]"--Pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Eschatology--Biblical teaching.; Jesus Christ--Ethics.; Jesus Christ--Teachings.; Kingdom of God--Biblical teaching.