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Eschatology : Death and the Eternal Life (Second Edition) /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-
Otros Autores: Auer, Johann, 1910-1989
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2007], 1988.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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