God and History in the Book of Revelation - New Testament Studies in Dialogue With Pannenberg and Moltmann

Zusammenfassung This book examines the question of how God might be thought to relate to the realm of human history. It explores this partly through a reading of a particular New Testament text, the Book of Revelation, and partly through analysing the work of two theologians, Jürgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Setting the scene: a modern debate about faith and history; 2. Relating scripture and systematic theology: some preliminary issues; 3. Ways of approaching the Book of Revelation; 4. The spatial dimension of the Book of Revelation; 5. The temporal dimension of the Book of Revelation; 6. Pannenberg, Moltmann, and the Book of Revelation; 7. Conclusions; Bibliography; Indexes.

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• Authors: Michael Gilbertson, Michael (University of Durham) Gilbertson, Gilbertson Michael
• Assisted by: John Court (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521020718
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02071-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Society for New Testament Stud; Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations