Eschatology in the Making
Subtitle: Mark, Matthew and the Didache (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521591379
Subjects: New Testament; Religion - Biblical Studies; Mark XIII; Christianity - Theology - General; N.T.; Eschatology; New Testament Commentary; History of doctrines; Religion; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Biblical Studies - General; Christian Theology - Eschatology; Eschatology--Biblical teaching; Religion / Bible / Criticism, Interpretation / General; Bible - Study - General; N.T; Christian Theology - General; Bible; Bible.; Biblical teaching; Early church, ca. 30-600
First sentence: There are indications in the canon of the New Testament and in early extra-canonical sources that the delay of the parousia of Christ presented the early church with an eschatological and theological problem.