In the New Testament texts, there is significant tension between Jesus's nonviolent mission and message and the apparent violence attributed to God and God's agents at the anticipated end. David Neville challenges the ready association between New Testament eschatology and retributive vengeance on christological and canonical grounds. He explores the narrative sections of the New Testament--the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation--with a view to developing a peaceable, as opposed to retributive, understanding of New Testament eschatology. Neville shows that for every narrative text in the New Testament that anticipates a vehement eschatology, another promotes a largely peaceable eschatology. This work furthers the growing discussion of violence and the doctrine of the atonement.
- ISBN10 0801048516
- ISBN13 9780801048517
- Publish Date 15 February 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Baker Publishing Group
- Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English