Sublime

Some of the most recognizable evidential apologists of our time include John Warwick Montgomery

That is not only what the Old Testament usage would demand;27 it is not only what is indicated by the post-biblical second-temple literature of which John Piper is so cautious. It is massively indicated by the argument of Romans itself to this point, provided we actually read what Paul says, particularly in 2:17-3:8, rather than merely assuming tha

Colossians 3:18–19 and Ephesians 5:21–33 These two passages appear as part of Christian Haustafeln, or domestic codes.

Healing, forgiveness, renewal, the twelve, the new family and its new defining characteristics, open commensality, the promise of blessing for the Gentiles, feasts replacing fasts, the destruction and rebuilding of the Temple: all declared, in the powerful language of symbol, that Israel’s exile was over, that Jesus was himself in some way responsi

The controversy-stories are highly likely to be historical at the core; but their meaning is not the one traditionally assigned to them. They were about eschatology and politics, not religion or morality. Eschatology: Israel’s hope was being realized, but it was happening in Jesus’ way, and at his initiative. Politics: the kingdom Jesus was announc

So, sharpening up these issues into our five main questions: How does Jesus fit into the Judaism of his day? What were his aims? Why did he die? How did the early church come into being, and why did it take the shape it did? and Why are the gospels what they are?28 The sixth question is something of a joker in the pack, though every writer on Jesus

The Seminar announced to its public that the real Jesus was innocent of the wicked apocalypticism with which so many Christians, not least in the conservative American churches against which American academics react so strongly, had for so long associated him.

Others, however, use ‘eschatology’ to refer to ‘those views which find this world radically and profoundly corrupt or corrupting’, and which offer a critique and solution.33 In this sense, all serious social reformers and revolutionaries are ‘eschatological’; so, for example, is Buddhism; but that does not mean they expect the space-time universe t