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PART TWO REVELATION AND SIGNIFICANCE 5. IMPLICATIONS OF REVELATIONAL THEOLOGY .......... 136 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 136 Revelation and the Futility of Idolatry in 2.1-10 ........ 136 Revelation and the Attack on the Jewish Cult and Customs in 3.1 – 4.6 ........ 138 The Adversus-Judaeos Literature ....... 138 Influences from Marcion or Barnabas? ....... 140 The Threefold Answer of Revelational Theology ........ 142 Revelation and the Distinct Nature of Christian Ethics in 5.1 - 6.10 ....... 143 The Divine Character of the Christian Faith ........ 143 The Christian Citizenship ........ 144 The Christians as the Soul of the World ....... 145 A Comparison with Clement of Alexandria on Christian Life-Style ....... 146 Revelation and Personal Christian Faith in 10.1-8 .......................................... 146 Johannine Influences ........ 146 The Importance of Knowledge of God ....... 147 The Imitation of God through Love ........ 149 Digression: Ad Diognetum as a Defense of Orthodoxy? ....... 151 Revelation as the Work of Grace in the Church in 11.1 – 12.9 ........ 153 Revelational Theology as a Link between Chapter 1-10 and 11-12 ................... 155 Summary .................................................................................................................. 156 6. AFFIRMATIONS OF REVELATIONAL THEOLOGY ....... 157 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 157 Revelational Theology as an Affirmation of Pauline and Johannine Theologies ........ 158 Challenges to Pauline and Johannine Theologies ....... 158 Allusions to the Pauline and Johannine Writings .......... 159 Contributions from Pauline Theology ....... 161 Contributions from Johannine Theology ....... 164 Revelational Theology as an Affirmation of Early Christian Theology ......... 167 The Lakatosian Program of Nancey Murphy ....... 167 Application of the Lakatosian Program of Nancey Murphy ........ 169 Pauline and Johannine Heuristics ....... 172 Summary ................................................................................................................... 175 xix
Page 1: ATLANTIC COAST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
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Page 9: To Maria Johannes, Hanna, Josef, Ma
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Page 30 and 31: Eliade writes on theophanies, hiero
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Page 42 and 43: contains revelation in so far as it
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CHAPTER 2 AD DIOGNETUM AS AN APOLOG
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important link 9 between the kerygm
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customs. They guarantee the harmony
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Ad Diognetum and Second Century Apo
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incomprehensible, immutable etc. 51
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In his First Apology Justin introdu
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Christianity, he also incorporated
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divine revelation required a distin
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God’s eternal design and mysterio
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Fronto was a North African orator a
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positive picture of Christians and
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characterizes the writing as a whol
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“foreign origin.” 171 Tatian ga
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Here Tatian described how the angel
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personal story and critical perspec
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therefore, we must remind ourselves
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Severus as the first work in a seri
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helped by the Hebrews themselves.
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unfolding revelation through the Lo
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Ionia, in our curiosity…we who ha
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protreptic zeal. 271 Lona has prese
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invitation to take up a particular
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uncontainable, incomprehensible, in
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In the third book Theophilus first
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CHAPTER 3 AD DIOGNETUM AS A RHETORI
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efutation of the opponent (refutati
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describing the God of revelation. T
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The Rhetorical Structure We shall n
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central to chapters seven to nine,
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composition is complete. The author
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translated "all things at once". Go
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influence. With the idea, of “adm
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author's cosmology. Firstly, he was
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Aristides. In the kerygmatic preach
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“coming” and so underlining the
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philosophically as a rational order
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een revealed.” 116 What happens t
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pattern as presented here. Finally,
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Alexandria. 141 Secondly, when Theo
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apostle Paul did express himself in
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Communication to the Child We have
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interested in the results of man's
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epistles. “At one time we too wer
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had taken the sins of humankind and
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seems obvious that they had some pr
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suffering person. Now revelation wa
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FIGURE 3 The six doctrinal parts of
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CHAPTER 5 IMPLICATIONS OF REVELATIO
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linked idolatry to ethics. 222 To s
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animosity. We find no traces of emp
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Judaeos literature.” 247 In chapt
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was contrasted to the sacrificial c
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love as in a mystery (4.6, 10.3). T
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ἐπίνωσι. In the Gospel of J
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crave but for all rational things t
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Son of God was chosen from the very
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here identify an apostolic traditio
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in chapters eleven to twelve, the a
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Revelational Theology as an Affirma
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to Revelational Theology. These cha
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earth together under one head, even
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Contributions from Johannine Theolo
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is. He is free from wrath, but full
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theology, is in need of an organizi
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Eschatology: God conceived a plan o
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something in line with Justin's phi
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even to their enemies. That was the
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CHAPTER 7 APPLICATIONS OF REVELATIO
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Revelation as History The second mo
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Revelation as Dialectical Presence
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a new mode of human spiritual consc
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iblical concept with a relatively b
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human invention or “a mortal idea
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After the second Word-War, in 1946,
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obedience.” 463 There are many af
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mystery of Jesus Christ.” 472 Mys
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The great difference between finitu
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and as such it should be respected.
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in our stead, and he also conquers
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Revelation and Hermeneutics The aut
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vitalizing role of the Spirit. Due
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ut on the basis of the new criterio
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CONCLUSION 206
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Revelation and Signification In thi
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Theology probably had a great signi
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interpreted history in eschatologic
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Specific Methodological Questions T
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The Theology of the Inquiry Exclusi
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always greater than our intellectua
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The Divine Character of Revelation
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love and the hope of eternal life,
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Justin Martyr.2009. Justin-Philosop
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Behm, Johannes. 1964. καινό. I
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Chadwick, Henry. 1962. Early Christ
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___________. 1988. Greek Apologists
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Lona, Horacio E. 2001. An Diognet.
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Quasten, Johannes. 1992. Patrology.
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Vickers, Brian. 1988. In Defense of
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The Word as instrument in creation
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