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100	1		_aHays, Christopher M., _d1983-
245	1	0	_aWhen the son of man didn't come : _ba constructive proposal on the delay of the parousia / _cChristopher M. Hays ; in collaboration with Brandon Gallaher, Julia S. Konstantinovsky, Richard J. Ounsworth OP, and C.A. Strine.
260			_aMinneapolis _bFortress Press _c2016
300			_axix, 317 pages ; _c24 cm
500			_a"This volume represents four years of collaborative work by the Oxford Postdoctoral Colloquium on Eschatology."--Acknowledgments, page xi.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and indexes.
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. (Publisher)
650		0	_aEschatology.
650		0	_aSecond Advent _xBiblical teaching.
650		7	_aSecond Advent _xBiblical teaching _2fast
650		7	_aEschatology. _2fast
700	1		_aGallaher, Brandon, _d1972-
700	1		_aKonstantinovsky, Julia.
700	1		_aOunsworth, Richard Joseph, _d1972-
700	1		_aStrine, C. A. _q(Casey Alan), _d1975-
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