
Jesus and His Coming
John A. T. Robinson(Author)
SCM Press
Published on 9. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-334-00757-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this controversial study, first published in l957. Dr Robinson looked for the origins of the doctrine of the Second Coming in the belief of the early church. His conclusion, that the early church may well have misinterpreted the original teaching of Jesus on the issue, was based on a careful and thorough examination of the New Testament material. In his preface to this reissue, he writes: In the quarter of a century since I worked on the material I am not persuaded that the thesis of the hook has lost its importance or its credibility. How and why the doctrine of the Parousia or Second Coming of Christ emerged in the thinking of the earliest Christian Communities remains of vital significance as we continue to wrestle today with how we can re-express it theologically, apply it politically, communicate it pastorally or incorporate it liturgically. that part of Christian teaching which asserts that Christ has to come into everything would seem on the it face of it to he the easiest to make relevant. Yet how much of its traditional formulation rests on a mistake, or represents a myth we can scarcely make our own? Until we understand what in that primordial explosion of truth which marked the first decades of the Christian movement caused it to he thrown up. what positive insights it embodied - and. I would say, distorted - we shall not be free to proclaim it with conviction or to apply it with discernment.'
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
252 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-334-00757-9 (9780334007579)
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Person
John A. T. Robinson was a New Testament scholar who served as Bishop of Woolwich England was well as Dean of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Among his many writings are Redating the New Testament , Honest to God, and Wrestling with Romans.