In other words, is there really such a thing as non-apocalyptic eschatology and what does it look like? In his ABD article on it, Paul Hanson creates a dichotomy between apocalyptic eschatology and prophetic eschatology. Is this valid?
The question came up as I met with Boustan today as we met at a little cafe in [...]
Browsing the archives for the apocalyptic eschatology category
9 Jul 09
9 May 09
In his survey courses at UCLA, Scott Bartchy often highlights the difference between the “prophetic view of history” and the “apocalyptic view of history.” As he outlines the topic, the prophetic view sees history as a series of cycles, in which things get bad, but the people of Israel can reverse the downwards course of [...]
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Posted in Daniel, apocalyptic eschatology, apocalyptic literature, history, quotes
10 Apr 09
Last week I learned that I was approved for UCLA’s Summer Research Mentorship Grant. I was a little worried about it–what, with the California state financial apocalypse and all. But the good news is that I will have the opportunity to work with Ra’anan Boustan on my apocalyptic obsession this summer, unhindered by all the [...]
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Posted in apocalyptic eschatology, dissertation, financial aid, research, ucla
8 Apr 09
On Koinonia, the blog hosted by Zondervan Academic, David Frees reviews Chris Wright’s views on the “Great Climax” in Wright’s book,The God I Don’t Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith. Here is Wright’s own summary of the relevant chapter (10) in the book:
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I have not actually read Wright’s book yet, but from Frees’ post, [...]
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Posted in apocalyptic eschatology, books, eschatology, quotes
14 Jan 09
In reading on apocalyptic things, I came across this fun bit by John J. Collins in Knowing the End from the Beginning: The Prophetic, The Apocalyptic, and their Relationships (note the use of “Apocalyptic” in the title), edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert Haak (T & T Clark):
Categories and definitions were the subject of [...]
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Posted in British, England, UK, apocalypse, apocalyptic, apocalyptic eschatology, apocalypticism, book reviews, books, quotes
7 Dec 08
Is destruction the defining characteristic of apocalyptic thought? If you look at the chart that I have included in a previous post, you see that “judgment/destruction of the wicked” is the only category that appears in every Apocalypse that is listed in the chart. This makes sense as a defining characteristic. Apocalyptic writing is a [...]
15 Nov 08
I had a conversation with a very intelligent and well-read UCLA undergrad yesterday about how we define the various terms used for eschatology and apocalyptic things in New Testament studies. I went back to a paper I wrote on the history of scholarship on apocalypticism and thought it might be good to post the brief [...]
18 Mar 08
I have just been reading the Paul Hanson’s section in the ABD article on “Apocalypses and Apocalypticism.” I came across a distinction between two types of biblical eschatology that seems helpful. Eschatology is the study of what will happen at the end of time. The Bible sees the end of time as a dramatic [...]
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