The hope of the early church : a handbook of patristic eschatology /
This book is an outline of the development of eschatological thought in the first seven centuries of Christianity. It is the first attempt, in any language, to give a comprehensive description of the origins of Christian eschatology, as it expanded from its Jewish roots and Jesus' preaching, an...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1991
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Table of Contents:
- Visions of a new day: early Semitic Christianity and Christian apocalyptic
- Making history intelligible: eschatology and the apologists
- Regaining the light: eschatology in the gnostic crisis (150-200)
- Senectus Mundi: eschatology in the West, 200-250
- A school for souls: Alexandrian eschatology and its critics (185-300)
- The dawn of the final conflict: Latin eschatology in the great persecution (303-313)
- Facing death in freedom: Eastern eschatology in the Age of Nicaea (325-400)
- Redemptio Totius Corporis: Latin eschatology in the fourth century
- Grace present and future: Greek eschatology in the fifth century
- Signs of a church triumphant: Latin eschatology in the fifth century
- Apokatastasis and apocalyptic: Eastern eschatology after Chalcedon
- The end of all flesh: eschatology in the sixth-century West
- Epilogue: a common hope