The A Polemical Work on a Neglected Area of Biblical Studies and Its Damaging Effects on Theology and Philosophy Koch, Klaus creator text xx Naperville, Ill Alec R. Allenson 1972 9999 monographic und eng ger

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157 p. ; 22 cm. 1. The purpose of this book -- 2. The Apocalyptic Renaissance -- 3. What is Apocalyptic? An attempt at a proliminary definition: The cloudiness of current definitions -- A preliminary demonstration of the apocalypse as a literary type -- A preliminary demonstration of apocalyptic as a historical movement -- The position of apocalyptic in the literature of late antiquity -- 4. The gulf between prophecy and apocalyptic: German Old Testament scholarship. Jesus as the continuation of prophecy -- The question of the apocalyptic interpretation of history -- 5. Apocalyptic in the shadow of prophecy: British and American exegesis. Successors or the prophets, opponents of the Pharisees: the viewpoint of Old Testament scholars -- Jesus ethical but not apocalyptic: the position of New Testament scholars 6. The agonized attempt to save Jesus from apocalyptic: Continental New Testament scholarship. The history of religions school -- The preponderance of rabbinic studies between 1920 and 1960 -- The effects of the demythologizing programme -- The vexatious delay of the parousia -- The new advances of Wilckens and Kasemann -- The reaction ot Kasemann -- Paul and Jesus against an apocalyptic background: Stuhlmacher and Strobel -- The return to earlier positions in protest against Rosler: Nissen, Betz and Murdock -- French reserve towards apocalyptic -- 7. Systematic theology turns to eschatology. Non-apocalyptic eschatology between 1920 and 1960 -- The revival of apocalyptic universal history: Pannenberg -- Opposition to the world in the lights of the apocalyptic future: Moltmann and Sauter -- 8. Apocalyptic as a disquieting motif in non-theological thinking. Apocalyptic images in art and literature -- The historical nature of human existence in the context of modern philosophy's historical enquiry -- Philosophy under the influence of sociological questionings -- 9. Why things must change: a highly subjective epilogue. Kerygma and canon -- The unique character of the Christian faith. Klaus Koch Translation of : Ratlos vor der Apokalyptik. Apocalyptic literature BS646 .K613 1972 97808401307230840130724 240419