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100			_aHays, Christopher M.
100			_d(1983-...)
100			_eAuthor
245			_aWhen the Son of Man didn't come
245			_bA constructive proposal on the delay of the Parousia
245			_cChristopher M. Hays
260			_aMinneapolis, U.S.A
260			_bThe Fortress
260			_c2016
300			_a317tr.
300			_bHardcover
300			_c24cm
520			_aThe delay of the Parousia--the second coming of Christ--has vexed Christians since the final decades of the first century. This volume offers a critical, constructive, and interdisciplinary solution to that dilemma. The argument is grounded in Christian tradition while remaining fully engaged with the critical insights and methodological approaches of twenty-first-century scholars. The authors argue that the deferral of Christ's prophesied return follows logically from the conditional nature of ancient predictive prophecy: Jesus has not come again because God's people have not yet responded sufficiently to Christ's call for holy and godly action. God, in patient mercy, remains committed to cooperating with humans to bring about the consummation of history with Jesus' return. Collaboratively written by an interdisciplinary and ecumenical team of scholars, the argument draws on expertise in biblical studies, systematics, and historical theology to fuse critical biblical exegesis with a powerful theological paradigm that generates an apophatic and constructive Christian eschatology. The authors, however, have done more than tackle a daunting theological problem: as the group traverses issues from higher criticism through doctrine and into liturgy and ethics, they present an innovative approach for how to do Christian theology in the twenty-first-century academy.
650			_aSecond Advent -- Biblical teaching
957			_a211001 TKH
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