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History and Eschatology - Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Hardcover)
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History and Eschatology - Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Hardcover)
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How can we know about God? That question increasingly bothered
scientists and philosophers in the modern period as they chipped
away at previously imagined "certainties." They refused to take on
trust the "special revelation" of the Christian Bible, trying
instead to argue up to God from the "natural" world. That is the
theme of the Gifford Lectures, inaugurated over 130 years ago. This
natural theology has usually bracketed out the Bible and Jesusaand
with them, usually, the scholars who study them. History and
Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology represents
the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf
Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann's dehistoricized approach, N. T.
Wright argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements
that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a
genuine human beingapart of the "natural world"athere is no reason
the historical Jesus should be off-limits. What would happen if we
brought him back into the discussion? What, in particular, might
"history" and "eschatology" really mean? And what might that say
about "knowledge" itself? This lively and wide-ranging discussion
invites us to see Jesus himself in a different light by better
acquainting ourselves with the first-century Jewish world. Genuine
historical study challenges not only what we thought we knew but
how we know it. The crucifixion of the subsequently resurrected
Jesus, as solid an event as any in the "natural" world, turns out
to meet, in unexpected and suggestive ways, the puzzles of the
ultimate questions asked by every culture. At the same time, these
events open up vistas of the eschatological promise held out to the
entire natural order. The result is a larger vision, both of
"natural theology" and of Jesus himself, than either the academy or
the church has normally expected.
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