Normativity of the Future: Reading Biblical and Other Authorative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective

by Mary Elsbernd and Reimund Bieringer

One of the major issues of contemporary theology is the relationship between the past and the present. Many see the task of theology as the re-interpretation of past traditions for today. This focus pays scant attention to the future. In recent years theological inquiry into the future and eschatology is surfacing. In the past ten years we have developed an eschatological hermeneutics for the interpretation of biblical and other authoritative texts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042922273
• ISBN13: 9789042922273
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"