Christ and Time: The Primitive Christian Conception of Time

TRANSLATOR\'S PREFACE......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
FOREWORD......Page 11
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 15
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER TO THETHIRD EDITION......Page 17
INTRODUCTION......Page 33
THE CONTINUOUS REDEMPTIVE LINE......Page 51
1 ITHE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TERMINOLOGY FOR TIME......Page 53
2THE LINEAR CONCEPTION OF TIME IN THEbREVELATORY HISTORY OF THE BIBLE AS CONTRASTEDWITH THE CYCLICAL CONCEPTIONOF HELLENISM......Page 67
3 TIME AND ETERNITY......Page 77
4 GOD\'S LORDSHIP OVER TIME......Page 85
5 THE NEW DIVISION OF TIME FROM THE CENTRALPOINT OF THE REDEMPTIVE HISTORY......Page 97
6 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HISTORY ANDPROPHECY (HISTORY AND MYTH)......Page 110
7 THE REDEMPTIVE LINE AS CHRIST -LINE.THE MANNER OF PRESENTING IT......Page 123
8 THE DOUBLE MOVEMENT OF THE REDEMPTIVELINE ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLEOF REPRESENTATION......Page 131
PART II\r THE UNIQUE CHARACTER OF THEREDEMPTIVE EPOCHS......Page 135
1 THE UNIQUE CHARACTEROF THE CHRIST-DEED AT THE MID-POINT......Page 137
2 \rTHE PAST STAGES OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORYAND THEIR RELATION TO THE CHRIST-EVENTAT THE MID-POINT......Page 147
3 THE FUTURE STAGES OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORYAND THEIR RELATION TO THE CHRIST -EVENTAT THE MID-POINT......Page 155
4 THE PRESENT STAGE OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORYAND ITS RELATION TO THE CHRIST -EVENTAT THE MID-POINT......Page 160
PART III \rREDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND THE GENERALCOURSE OF WORLD EVENTS......Page 191
1 REDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND CHRISTIANUNIVERSALISM......Page 193
2 THE. COMPLETE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST AND THEREDEMPTIVE PROCESS......Page 201
3 THE SUBJECTION OF THE INVISIBLE POWERS......Page 207
4 THE QUESTION OF WORLD AFFIRMATION ORWORLD DENIAL IN THE LIGHT OF THENEW TEST AMENT REDEMPTIVEHISTORY......Page 227
PART IV REDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL MAN......Page 231
1 THE INDIVIDUAL MAN AND THE PAST STAGE OFREDEMPTIVE HISTORY (FAITH AND ELECTION)......Page 233
2 THE INDIVIDUAL MAN AND THE PRESENT STAGEOF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY (THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT AND THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD)......Page 238
3 THE INDIVIDUAL MAN AND THE FUTURE STAGEC)F REDEMPTIVE HISTORY (RESURRECTIONFAITH AND RESURRECTION HOPE)......Page 247
INDEXES......Page 259
INDEX OF SCRIPTURE REFERENCES......Page 261
INDEX OF AUTHORS......Page 267