Abstract:Apocalyptic narrative and apocalyptic expectation are integral to the logic of the gospel. This essay surveys and critiques three unsatisfactory strategies for reinterpreting the gospel in non‐apocalyptic terms: the Johannine “vertical” eschatology of union with Christ, the Jesus Seminar's construction on a non‐apocalyptic Jesus, and N. T. Wright's reading of synoptic apocalyptic passages as a symbolic references to events that occurred already in the first century. Christian theology cannot dispense with a fu… Show more
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