In this scholarly study Stephen Travis examines the role of retribution in New Testament theologies of judgment. This long awaited second edition includes three entirely new chapters as well as being completely revised and updated. Travis' main thesis is that New Testament theologies of judgment are more fundamentally relational than retributive. He argues that while elements of retribution are present in each "strand" of the New Testament, they are remarkably infrequent, in view of their prominence in the Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds. He argues that both in Paul and in the gospels one's relationship to God, through Christ, is the criterion of judgment; and the ultimate outcome of the judgment is conceived in terms of that relationship.
- ISBN10 0551013583
- ISBN13 9780551013582
- Publish Date 29 August 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Marshall Pickering
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English