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22 - The Future of Jesus of Nazareth

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

from Part V - Outlook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
C. Kavin Rowe
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Jesus of Nazareth’s future engages Christian hope and the fulfillment of creation’s purpose. Jesus’s earthly life and divine identity are inseparable. This union both constitutes and challenges perceptions of linear time and functions creatively to intertwine past, present, and future. Jesus’s transformative impact on humanity and history signifies the final reconciliation and realization of God’s kingdom, which is manifest both in his historical presence and in his eternal nature.

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timekingdom of Godeschatologyincarnationtransformation
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 365 - 378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Boyarin, Daniel. 2001. “The Gospel of the Memra: Jewish Binitarianism and the Prologue to John.” Harvard Theological Review 94: 243–84.Google Scholar
Cullmann, Oscar. 1964. Christ and Time: The Primitive Christian Conception of Time and History. Translated by F. V. Filson. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.Google Scholar
Dawson, David. 2002. Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Keck, Leander E. 1981. A Future for the Historical Jesus: The Place of Jesus in Preaching and Theology. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.Google Scholar
Keck, Leander E. 2000. Who Is Jesus? History in Perfect Tense. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.Google Scholar
Rowe, C. Kavin. 2006. Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rowe, C. Kavin. 2016. One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions. New Haven: Yale University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rowe, C. Kavin. 2020. Christianity’s Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope. Nashville: Abingdon.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. 1985. Jesus and Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. 1993. The Historical Figure of Jesus. London: Allen Lane/Penguin.Google Scholar
Watson, Francis. 1997. Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Weiss, Johannes. 1971. Jesus’ Proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Philadelphia: Fortress.Google Scholar
Wright, N. T. 2010. After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters. New York: HarperOne.Google Scholar

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