The New Jerusalem Is No Heaven
It is all too easy to take the biblical imagery of the New Jerusalem and make it solely into a type of other-worldly, gnostic spiritual future. The Christian understanding of the power of the resurrection and God’s new creation push back against a simple understanding of heaven. God takes humanity a...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Seminaries
[2020]
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Word & world
Year: 2020, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-179 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Heaven
B Resurrection - Biblical teaching B New Creation B Eschatology - Christianity - History of doctrines B Eschatology - Biblical teaching B Bible. Revelation - Theology B Jerusalem (Symbol) |
| Summary: | It is all too easy to take the biblical imagery of the New Jerusalem and make it solely into a type of other-worldly, gnostic spiritual future. The Christian understanding of the power of the resurrection and God’s new creation push back against a simple understanding of heaven. God takes humanity and the world into a new reality that transcends our temptation toward a rejection of creation. |
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| ISSN: | 0275-5270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Word & world
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