| Uniform title |
Eschatologie, Tod und ewiges Leben. English
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| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 307 pages) |
| Series |
Dogmatic Theology; Ser. ; v. 9 |
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Dogmatic Theology; Ser.
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| Notes |
Translation of: Eschatologie, Tod und ewiges Leben. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-297) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second English Edition -- Preface to the First English Edition -- Forword to This Edition -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction: The State of the Question -- 1. On the Current State of the Eschatology Question -- 2. The Historical Presuppositions of the Present Situation -- Part One. The Eschatological Problem as a Question About the Very Essence of Christianity -- II. The Exegetical Data -- 1. A Word on Method -- 2. The Meaning of Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God -- 3. The Expectation of an Imminent End |
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III. Word and Reality in Contemporary Appreciation -- 1. The Panorama of Solutions -- a) Karth Barth -- b) Rudolf Bultmann -- c) Oscar Cullmann -- d) C.H. Dodd -- e) The Theology of Hope and Political Theology -- 2. Preliminary Conclusions -- Part Two. Death and Immortality. The Individual Dimention of Eschatology -- IV. The Theology of Death -- 1. Posing the Question -- 2. The Historical Roots of the Question -- a) The Prevailing View -- b) An Attempt at Revisionism -- 3. The Development of the Question in Biblical Thought -- a) The Old Testament |
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B) The Interpretatino of Death and Life in the New Testament -- 4. Some Conclusions on the Ethos of Death in Christianity -- a) Assent to Life as a Whole -- b) The Meaning of Suffering -- V. The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Dead -- 1. The State of the Question -- 2. The Biblical Data -- a) The Resurrection from the Dead -- b) The ""Intermediate State"" Between Death and Resurrection -- i. Early Judaism -- ii. The New Testament -- c) Conclusions and Implications -- 3. The Documents of the Church's Magisterium -- 4. Theological Unfolding -- a) The Heritage of Antiquity |
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B) The New Concept of Soul -- c) The Dialogical Character of Immortality -- d) Immortality and creation -- e) Summary: The Principal Features of the Christian Faith in Eternal Life -- Part Three. The Future Life -- VI. The Resurrection of the Death and the Return of Christ -- 1. What does ""The Resurrection of the Dead"" Mean? -- a) The State of the Question -- b) The Tradition -- i. The New Testament -- ii. The Clarification of the Formula ""The Resurrection of the Flesh"" in the First Three Centuries -- iii. The Debate About the Risen Body in the History of Theology |
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C) What Is ""Resurrection on the Last Day""? -- d) The Risen Body -- 2. The Return of Christ and the Final Judgement -- a) The Biblical Data -- i. The Signs of Christ's Return -- ii. The Judgement -- b) Theological Evaluation -- VII. Hell, Purgatory, Heaven -- 1. Hell -- 2. Purgatory -- a) The Problem of the Historical Data -- b) The Permanent Content of the Doctorine of Purgatory -- 3. Heaven -- Appendix I. Between Death and Resurrection: Some Supplementary Reflections -- 1. A Clarification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Question of Eschatology |
| Other author |
Auer, Johann, 1910-1989.
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| Subject |
Eschatology.
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Future life -- Christianity.
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| ISBN |
9780813216447 (electronic bk.) |
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0813216443 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813215167 |
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0813215161 |
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