God and History in the Book of Revelation
Subtitle: New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and Moltmann (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521824668
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the New Testament; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Christianity; Revelation; Bible - Study - Old Testament; Religion; N.T.; History; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Moltmann, Jurgen; Pannenberg, Wolfhart; Religion / Bible / Study / Old Testament; Theology; Bible - Study - New Testament; Religious aspects; Bible; Bible.; Biblical teaching; N.T
First sentence: The starting point for this study lies in twentieth-century debates about the relationship between history and faith.
Description: This is an interdisciplinary study which constructs a dialogue between biblical interpretation and systematic theology. It examines how far a reading of the Book of Revelation might either support or question the work of leading theologians Wolfhart Pannenberg and Jü̈rgen Moltmann on the theology of history, exploring the way in which the author of Revelation uses the dimensions of space and time to make theological points about the relationship between God and history. The book argues that Revelation sets the present earthly experience of the reader in the context of God's ultimate purposes, by disclosing hidden dimensions of reality, both spatial - embracing heaven and earth - and temporal - extending into the ultimate future. Dr Gilbertson offers a detailed assessment of the theologies of history developed by Pannenberg and Moltmann, including their views on the nature of the historical process, and the use of apocalyptic ideas in eschatology.