Download or read book Christ Salvation and the Eschaton written by Daniel Heinz and published by Old Testament Department Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary Andrews University. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annihilation of Hell written by Nicholas Ansell and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyses and evaluates Jurgen Moltmann's model of universal salvation and its relation to his understanding of the redemption, or eschatological fulfilment, of time. For Jurgen Moltmann, Hell is the nemesis of Hope. The 'Annihilation of Hell' thus refers both to Hell's annihilative power in history and to the overcoming of that power as envisioned by Moltmann's distinctive theology of the cross in which God becomes 'all in all' through Christ's descent into Godforsakenness. The negation of Hell and the fulfilment of history are inseparable. Attentive to the overall contours and dynamics of Moltmann's thinking, especially his zimzum doctrine of creation, his eschatologically oriented philosophy of time, and his expanded understanding of the nature-grace relationship, this study asks whether the universal salvation that he proposes can honour human freedom, promise vindication for those who suffer, and do justice to biblical revelation. As well as providing an in-depth exposition of Moltmann's ideas, The Annihilation of Hell also explores how a 'covenantal universalism' might revitalise our web of beliefs in a way that is attuned to the authorising of Scripture and the spirituality of existence. If divine and human freedom are to be reconciled, as Moltmann believes, the confrontation between Hell and hope will entail rethinking issues that are not only at the centre of theology but at the heart of life itself.
Download or read book The Eschatological Judgment of Christ written by Henry C. Anthony Karlson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar hopes that all might be saved. Critics say that makes Balthasar a universalist, and his universalism has become a hindrance for the evangelical mission of the church. Why would anyone evangelize and seek to convert others to the Christian faith if it is assured that everyone will be saved? Balthasar, throughout his writings, denied he was a universalist. He said that there is no way to know if all will be saved or not. Since God desires all will be saved, we can hope all will be, but until everyone has been judged, there will be no way to know if God's desire will be accomplished. Why? Because God does not force salvation on anyone. God gave humanity freedom, and he will not remove it from anyone, even if it means he risks losing some to perdition. Balthasar's critics believe his denial was merely a pretense, so that his speculations would not be condemned. They do not take his denials seriously. But should they? Does he really believe it is possible some might be damned? If so, how? By what means would anyone be damned?
Download or read book Universal Salvation written by Morwenna Ludlow and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two thousand years Paul's suggestion at the end of 1 Corinthians 15 that God will be 'all in all' has appealed to those who hold a 'wider hope' that eventually no person will be lost from God's love. Clearly, such hope for universal salvation is at variance with most Christian tradition, which has emphasized the possibility, or certainty, of eternal hell. However, a minority of Christian thinkers have advocated the idea and it has provoked much debate in the course of the twentieth century. Responding to this interest, Morwenna Ludlow compares and assesses the arguments for universal salvation by Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner - two influential theologians from very different eras who are less well known for their eschatological views. In this book Dr Ludlow gives an assessment of early Christian eschatology and its effect on modern theology by examining some fundamental questions. Does universal salvation constitute a 'second tradition' of eschatology and how has that tradition developed? What can we learn from Patristic writers such as Gregory of Nyssa? How does one approach Christian eschatology in a modern context?
Download or read book Saved as Through Fire written by Joseph A Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the fields of theology, eschatology has traditionally been the most troublesome for Christians to come to agreement upon and has become something of a perennial Achilles' Heel in theology. The consequences are drastic. Why so? It's my view that the Bible is the result of God's action of self revelation through the telling of a narrative. The thing about a story is that final conclusions cannot be drawn until the final chapter has been concluded. If the Bible is the story of God, one cannot truly and finally know God accurately until the ending of the story is known. This explains why so much of the Bible is filled with prophecies regarding the eschaton, the last days of human history. God had to include the final chapter ahead of time, within the pages of Scripture, if He was to succeed in accurately revealing Himself. This demonstrates the importance of getting eschatology right. The closer one gets to an accurate interpretation of the last days prophecies, the more accurately one will see the revelation of God's nature and character. Eschatology reveals the final fate of humans and the world they live in under the sovereign rule of God. How God manifests this sovereignty in disposing of the world and all His creatures reveals to us with finality what God is like. Is He vengeful, manifesting an ultimately hateful desire to refuse redemption of some of His creatures? If so, did the sovereign, ominipotent and all loving Creator love some creatures more than others in such a way that the fate of creatures are finally determined by such bestowal or defecit of Divine love? Then, would the final "take" on God's character be that He is both Love and Hate, with no ultimate reconciliation of the two opposites into one defining attribute? Or is God truly and finally love, as the apostle of John defines Him, above all other considerations. There's no doubt that divine wrath is exhibited in the narrative of Scripture. But if God is finally and ultimately love, we should expect such manifestation of wrath to be temporary and constructive.This will control our understanding of such eschatological images such as "hell" and "the lake of fire." Additionally, that latter image is also a metallurgical one, as the book will show. The book understands that metallurgical themes permeate the entirety of Scripture and is the most proper background against which to understand the story of eschatology. The motif and imagery of fire is found in the protology of the Bible (the beginning of the story) as well as the eschatology (the end.). Fire is such an overwhelming image not because God is a sadist who delights in torturing His errant creatures forever, but because He is the divine metallurgist, who uses fire to bring His world of creatures to their final and perfected and purified end.This book will tell the story of eschatology by mining the full depth of the Scripture's metallurgical allusions. In so doing, it will move to the final conclusion of God that important theologians in the ancient Church, such as Gregory of Nyssa, called Apocatastasis, or the return of all things back to God. This is an ultimate universalism - not a false universalism of "all are now saved" but a hopeful and true universalism of "all will eventually be saved"...because how can omnipotent, omniscient love ever fail to lose even one of His creatures to eternal damnation? It doesn't make sense. A word about the eschatology in this book: it is both at turns preterist as well as futurist. These two basic divisions characterize opposing systems of interpretation. Preterism stresses that most of the last days prophecy was fulfilled in the first century. Futurism counters that and stresses that most of the last days prophecy remains in our future. What I describe in this book is a pathway of interpretation that allows a preterist interpretation where the context demands it and preserves futurism with other passages. This balance leads to a unique eschatology.
Download or read book A New Heaven and a New Earth written by J. Richard Middleton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, more and more Christians have come to appreciate the Bible's teaching that the ultimate blessed hope for the believer is not an otherworldly heaven; instead, it is full-bodied participation in a new heaven and a new earth brought into fullness through the coming of God's kingdom. Drawing on the full sweep of the biblical narrative, J. Richard Middleton unpacks key Old Testament and New Testament texts to make a case for the new earth as the appropriate Christian hope. He suggests its ethical and ecclesial implications, exploring the difference a holistic eschatology can make for living in a broken world.
Download or read book Revelation written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Things New written by Gene L. Green and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith presents a distinctive vision of last things: that God in Christ aims to reconcile the world to himself, and through his Spirit and a new people, to set all things to right. This good news is for all nations and peoples, but for too long the Christian doctrine of eschatology has focused on debates and arguments rooted solely in the Western church. In All Things New, leading theologians and biblical scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America offer readers a glimpse of how Christians around the globe are perceiving and describing the Christian hope. The result is a remarkably refreshing and distinctive vision of eschatology guaranteed to raise new questions and add new insights to the global church’s vision of the eschaton.
Download or read book Eschatology Liturgy and Christology written by Thomas P. Rausch and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Christian hope is reduced to the salvation of the soul in a heaven beyond death," wrote Jürgen Moltmann, "it loses its power to renew life and change the world, and its flame is quenched." Thomas Rausch, SJ, agrees, arguing that too often the hoped-for eschaton has been replaced by an almost exclusive emphasis on the "four last things"-death and judgment, heaven and hell. But eschatology cannot be reduced to the individual salvation. In his new book, Rausch explores eschatology's intersections with Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and, perhaps most intriguingly, liturgy. With the early Christians, he sees God's future as a radically social reality, already present initially in Christian worship, especially in the celebration of the Eucharist. This fresh and insightful work of theology engages voices both ancient and contemporary.
Download or read book Between Apocalypse and Eschaton written by Joseph S. Flipper and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Apocalypse and Eschaton argues that eschatology is the key to de Lubac's theological project and critical to understanding the nouvelle theologie, the group of theologians with whom de Lubac was associated. While much recent focuses on the controversies over the supernatural, this work returns to an often neglected aspect of de Lubac's work and examines it in the wider historical, political, and theological context of war-torn twentieth-century Europe, which critically shape the meaning of "the end."
Download or read book Hyper Calvinist Universal Salvation written by Jeff Grupp and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are still big theological discoveries to be found when digging into Scripture. Hyper-Calvinist Universal Salvation unearths a few of them, most notably, a previously undiscovered theology in Scripture, where the mysterious entity referred to in the book of Revelation as the Lake of Fire is found to be another name for GOD, who, according to Scripture, will save all condemned and unchosen human souls that were ever created at the Eschaton (end of the world), when he will immolate them in the core of his Consuming Fire (Lake of Fire), to save them by Fire (1 Cor 3:15). This theology, and this understanding of the Eschaton, free from any of the so-called Bible contradictions (such as a GOD of infinite love torturing people in hell in infinite cruelty forever, to name one), unveils an elegant Hyper-Calvinistic systematic theology lurking throughout Scripture—especially in the copious and often passed-over prophecy passages that glut the Bible—where the unchosen/condemned have their condemnation reversed by the GOD of infinite love at the Eschaton.
Download or read book Aporiae written by Philip Krill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book is an exercise in theological imagination - a theologumenon. It is a modest attempt, in an intentionally untoward way, to re-acquaint us with a patristic vision of the universally salvific love of God that reconciles and divinizes all things in Christ that he may be ‘all in all’ (1 Cor. 15:28). Aporiae approaches the most controversial issues in theology - universal salvation, freedom, evil, etc. - using an entirely interrogative form. I’m not trying to get anyone to believe anything. I’m pointing towards a Horizon and a Mystery of divine goodness and love that infinitely exceeds anything of which the human mind and heart can conceive (cf. 1 Cor 2:9). I pray the questions I raise in this little book will affect the reader as I intend - as sincere ‘inquiries from the eschaton’. They are inspired, I believe, by an intuitive apprehension of the universally redemptive Mystery of trinitarian Love, and filled with the ‘hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit’ (cf. Rom 5:5), convincing us that ‘just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive’ (1 Cor. 15:22).
Download or read book Salvation History written by Eric Charles Rust and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eschatology written by Sandra Y. Washington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purpose of The Book: Eschatology: The Signs of The Times Of Jesus Christ's Soon Return was originally a title of a thesis. Rev. Washington was inspired to publish the thesis into a book format. She was inspired to alert the readers that Jesus' coming is closer than they think and that it is important for them to be aware of the signs of the times that tell of Jesus Christ's close return for those who received His salvation. This book will included the events that will occur during the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, The Millennial Age and the Perfect Age.
Download or read book The Judgment of Love written by James M. Matarazzo Jr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explore the concept of divine judgment in Christian eschatology. It contends that this judgment is salvific rather than destructive. This notion can be described aphoristically as iudicandus est salvandus ("to be judged is to be saved"). The provocation to Christian eschatology is that human beings are not saved from judgment, but are saved within it. The exploration begins defining the context and moves into a review of the symbols and problems of judgment through a reappraisal of De novissimis ("concerning the last things"), the last section found in traditional works of Christian dogmatics. This is followed by a critical engagement with the soteriological optimism posited by four twentieth- and twenty-first century theologians: Sergei Bulgakov, Hans Urs von Balthasar, J. A. T. Robinson, and Marilyn McCord Adams. The event of the judgment is then defined as the event of absolute recognition: that it is within the eschatic recognition of God, the self, and the other that transformation and glorification of human persons occur in a way that avoids a dual outcome of salvation and damnation. The book concludes by proposing that we may approach divine judgment with faith, hope, and love--not only for ourselves, but for the human race as a whole.
Download or read book Four Views on Heaven written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and understand the different Christian views of what heaven will be like. Christians from a variety of denominations and traditions are in middle of an important conversation about the final destiny of the saved. Scholars such as N. T. Wright and J. Richard Middleton have pushed back against the traditional view of heaven, and now some Christians are pushing back against them for fear that talk about the earthiness of our final hope distracts our attention from Jesus. In the familiar Counterpoints format, Four Views on Heaven brings together a well-rounded discussion and highlights similarities and differences of the current views on heaven. Each author presents their strongest biblical case for their position, followed by responses and a rejoinder that model a respectful tone. Positions and contributors include: Traditional Heaven - our destiny is to leave earth and live forever in heaven where we will rest, worship, and serve God (John S. Feinberg) Restored Earth - emphasizes that the saved will live forever with Jesus on this restored planet, enjoying ordinary human activities in our redeemed state. (J. Richard Middleton) Heavenly Earth - a balanced view that seeks to highlight both the strengths and weaknesses of the heavenly and earthly views (Michael Allen). Roman Catholic Beatific Vision - stresses the intellectual component of salvation, though it encompasses the whole of human experience of joy, happiness coming from seeing God finally face-to-face (Peter Kreeft). The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
Download or read book Abraham s Silence written by J. Richard Middleton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the point of the story? Is it possible that a careful reading of Genesis 22 could reveal that God was not pleased with Abraham's silent obedience? Widely respected biblical theologian, creative thinker, and public speaker J. Richard Middleton suggests we have misread and misapplied the story of the binding of Isaac and shows that God desires something other than silent obedience in difficult times. Middleton focuses on the ethical and theological problem of Abraham's silence and explores the rich biblical tradition of vigorous prayer, including the lament psalms, as a resource for faith. Middleton also examines the book of Job in terms of God validating Job's lament as "right speech," showing how the vocal Job provides an alternative to the silent Abraham. This book provides a fresh interpretation of Genesis 22 and reinforces the church's resurgent interest in lament as an appropriate response to God.
