By J. Richard Middleton
Lately, an increasing number of Christians have come to understand the Bible's instructing that the last word blessed wish for the believer isn't an otherworldly heaven; in its place, it's full-bodied participation in a brand new heaven and a brand new earth introduced into fullness throughout the coming of God's country. Drawing at the complete sweep of the biblical narrative, J. Richard Middleton unpacks key previous testomony and New testomony texts to make a case for the recent earth because the applicable Christian wish. He indicates its moral and ecclesial implications, exploring the adaptation a holistic eschatology could make for residing in a damaged global.
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The term “dualism” is used in different ways in the literature of religion and philosophy. Historically, it has been used for the idea that there are two metaphysical principles of separate origin. More recently the term has come to be used to designate just about any duality or twoness (often referred to as binary oppositions). My usage is different from both of these. ) and the other side is correspondingly devalued (as lower, unimportant, or even downright evil). “Dualism” therefore refers not simply to a conceptual duality, but rather to a value distinction at the worldview/precognitive/affective level superimposed on what may (or may not) be a valid conceptual distinction.
11). Human violence then escalates in Genesis€4 with the account of Lamech. €19)—that is, he initiates this particular form of violence against women—but also he engages in the first revenge killing (of a youth who injured him) and boasts about it to his two wives (vv. 23–24).
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