The return of Jesus in early Christianity

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"The aim of this book is to show how the New Testament and other early Christian writings depicted the return of Jesus and other end-times topics. Further light is shed by descriptions of the first-century Jewish context and later developments in Christian thinking. The goal is not to construct a systematic eschatology for today that will convince everyone - an impossible task - but to understand the diversity of Christian teaching by illuminating the historical, social, and theological settings of the early Christian writings on the topic."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Second Advent,  Eschatology,  Biblical teaching,  Vroege kerk,  Second avènement,  Enseignement biblique,  Parusie,  Études diverses,  Parousie,  Eschatologie,  Wederkomst van Christus,  Jésus-Christ,  11.51 early Christianity,  Frühchristentum