Search Results - "eschatology"

Around the year 1000, England is in a state of crisis and demoralisation which most likely fosters apocalyptic anxieties. The preoccupation becomes prominent in the writings of contemporary vernacular homilists, and plays a key role in Archbishop Wulfstan’s eschatological preaching. By focusing on...

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Even to the most casual reader, J.K. Rowling’s overarching story about the “Boy who lived” is about death. Since the publication of the first book of the Harry Potter series in 1997, theologians and scholars of philosophy of religion have explored this theme within the story, as well as other escha...

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This paper examines the eschatological themes in the series of poems, The Dance of Obedience or the Straw Carpet, written by the Benedictine nun Silja Walter (1919–2011) — Sr. Hedwig OSB from the Swiss monastery of Fahr. This series of poems is particu- larly representative for the poet’s work as i...

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Heidegger’s Reading of Apostle Paul. From 1915 to 1923, Heidegger taught in Freiburg. This was a delicate biographical and important philosophical phase for Heidegger, in which it became increasingly urgent to distance himself definitively from Husserl’s phenomenology. His attempt had developed int...

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The Kenyan philosopher John Mbiti highlights an original concept of time through his works: Religions et philosophie africaines (1969) and L’Eschatologie du Nouveau Testament en contexte africain : une étude de la rencontre de la théologie du Nouveau Testament et des concepts traditionnels africain...

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In this article, I examine the way in which Franz Delitzsch envisioned his masterpiece translation of the New Testament into Hebrew, first published in 1877. I focus on the aims Delitzsch attributed to his translation and on the way in which the translation project was embedded in the wider views he...

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This article provides an overview of John Mbiti and his African theology over the past half a century. It discusses how African theology has moved from being unwritten to more deliberate, organised, and written forms of articulation since the 1950s. It also discusses the life, teachings, writings an...

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World eschatology in Aitmatov’s late fiction “Cassandra’s Brand” (1996) addresses the problem of death expectation of mankind at the genetic level in the context of a worldwide catastrophe. In this case writer’s transition to rationalistic eschatology acting within the framework of secular culture,...

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The article dialectically examines two Christian notions of justice: retributive and eschatological. Retributive justice denotes its expression through retaliation for sin, and eschatological justice implies its realization of complete harmony of all relationships within the renewed creation. The la...

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Apocalyptic problems were relevant throughout the development of Christian culture. The content of apocalyptic works consisted mainly of eschatological revelations, that is, prophecies concerning the future of the end of the world. The book "Revelation of John" (Apocalypse) is an integral...

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This article analyzes one part of postmillennialist eschatology which claims that the kingdom of God before Christ’s second coming will be victorious in transforming every aspect of all societies of this world. Evil will not be completely destroyed, but Christian values and principles will be predom...

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This article focuses on two recent shows: 6 a.m. How to disappear completely (2015), created by the Athenian collective blitz theatre group (2004–2018) and La Bible, vaste entreprise de colonisation d’une planète habitable (2018), written and directed by Céline Champinot with the company Groupe La G...

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This study investigates the theme of universal salvation in the Syriac tradition by analyzing the theological and literary writings of three representative authors: Bardaisan of Edessa, Ephrem the Syrian and Isaac the Syrian. Although coming from different historical and doctrinal contexts, these th...

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In this paper, I will try to analyze St. Augustine’s and Dante’s views towards history by showing how their visions can be articulated into particular models of history, i.e. a particular schema that describes the unfolding of history with its specific focal points, and to what extent this model di...

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The Indiculus of Adventu Enoch and Eliae is an anonymous treatise written in the Iberian Peninsula between the end of the eighth-century and the end of the ninth-century. Centered on the Antichrist, it is an original production based on several commentaries of the Apocalypse and Daniel. The treatise...

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the confessional model of the image of a person in the popular prints of Old Believers-chapels of the Yenisei “Two Roads — Two Ways”. The novelty of the research is due to the introduction of new sources into scientific circulation. The relevance of the work...

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In 1 Timothy 4:1, the Spirit explicitly states that in later times some will devote themselves to the teachings of demons. While acknowledging the future implications of these doctrines, most commentators focus on their historical origins. To demonstrate that 1 Timothy 4:1–5 is an overlooked eschato...

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