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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David J Powys |
| ISBN: | 9781597527569 1597527564 |
| OCLC Number: | 785049904 |
| Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: Carlisle, Cumbria : Paternoster Press, 1997. Slightly abbreviated version of dissertation (Th. D.)--Australian College of Theology, 1994. |
| Description: | xxii, 478 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part One: The fate of the unrighteous in Christian thought -- 1. Classical perspectives on the fate of the unrighteous -- A. Irenaeus -- B. Gregory of Nyssa -- C. Augustine of Hippo -- D. Conclusion -- 2. The fate of the unrighteous in modern thought -- A. Immediate unending physical torment becomes 'orthodoxy' -- Western Christendom -- The Church of England formularies -- B. 'Orthodoxy' challenge -- Dating the challenge -- Resistance to the challenge -- The dynamics of the challenge -- The role of presuppositions -- Part Two: The foundation for a new quest to discern the fate of the unrighteous in New Testament thought -- 3. 'Life', 'death' and 'judgment' in the Old Testament -- A. 'Life' and 'death' in the earlier Old Testament traditions -- Life: God's good, finite gift -- Death -- B. 'Judgment' in the earlier and later Old Testament traditions -- 'Judgment' in the earlier Old Testament traditions -- 'Judgment' in the later Old Testament traditions -- C. 'Life' and 'death' in the later Old Testament traditions -- Sheol -- Reward -- Preservation -- Resurrection -- D. Forms of hope in the Old Testament -- Added Note 1: The influence of Bible translations -- 4. The politico-cultural challenges of the Greek and Hasmonean eras and the resultant responses -- A. Identifying and working with the relevant intertestamental literature -- Foundational premises -- The approach adopted -- B. The challenge -- The Hasmonean experience -- C. The responses -- diversification of hope -- The twelfth chapter of Daniel -- Apocrypha -- Pseudepigrapha -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Conclusion -- 5. The politico-cultural challenge of the Roman empire and the resultant responses -- A. The politico-cultural challenge -- B. The responses -- Hope as reflected in certain contemporary pseudepigrapha -- Human destiny int he Palestinian Targums -- Human destiny in the early Rabbinic traditions -- Added Note 2: Contemporary Messianism -- 6. The context of Jesus' teaching about human fate: 'Salvation' as 'compensation' in Jewish thought prior to the fall of Jerusalem -- The Pharisees -- A test case -- the tale of the rich man and Lazarus -- C. Conclusion -- 7. Divine rule and resurrection hope in the New Testament thought -- A. What was the apostolic hope? -- B. What was the basis of this hope? -- C. Apostolic hope and the problem of death -- A revised Pauline eschatology? -- Immortality? -- Added Note 3: Spatial images. Part Three: The fate of the unrighteous in New Testament thought -- 8. The fate of the unrighteous in the Synoptic Gospels -- A. Preliminary matters -- B. Passages containing references to Gehenna -- Calls to reconciliation -- Call for radical prevention -- Whom to fear and acknowledge -- Sayings against the Pharisees and Scribes -- C. Key images -- Rejection -- Destruction -- Retribution -- Matthean emphases -- Conclusion -- 9. The fate of the unrighteous in the Pauline corpus -- A. Wrath and judgment -- Wrath -- Judgment in the Pauline corpus -- Wrath and judgment in light of Romans 5 -- Added Note 4: Universalist texts -- 10. The fate of the unrighteous in the Johannine literature -- A. The fourth gospel -- Eternal life -- Relevant concepts -- John 5:28, 29 -- B. 1 John -- C. The apocalypse -- The nature of the work -- Revelation 19:11-21 -- Diverse fates -- D. Conclusion -- Added Note 5: The eschatology of John 5 -- 11. The fate of the unrighteous i Jude, Peter, Hebrews and James -- A. The Epistle of Jude -- B. The Petrine Epistles -- 2 Peter -- 1 Peter -- C. The Letter to the Hebrews -- D. The Epistle of James -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: The relevance of the Palestinian Targums -- Appendix B: Working with the early Rabbinic literature. |
| Series Title: | Paternoster biblical monographs. |
| Other Titles: | Fate of the unrighteous in New Testament thought |
| Responsibility: | David J. Powys ; foreword by Graham Stanton. |
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