"The Time Is Fulfilled": Jesus's Apocalypticism in the Context of Continental Philosophy

by Lynne Moss Bahr

Overview

In this study, Lynne Moss Bahr explores the concept of temporality as central to Jesus's proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Using insights from continental philosophy on the messianic, which expose the false claim that time progresses in a linear continuum, Bahr presents these philosophical positions in critical dialogue with the sayings of Jesus regarding time and time's fulfillment. She shows how the Kingdom represents the possibilities of a disruption in time, one that reveals the intrinsic relation between God and humanity.

In illustrating how Jesus's sayings regarding time are thus expressions of his messianic identity-as of the world and not of the world--Bahr argues that the meaning of Jesus's identity as Messiah is embedded in the disjuncture of time, in the impossibility of "now," from which the Kingdom comes . Bahr's use of critical theory in this study expands the concept of God's Kingdom beyond the traditional confines of the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567684370
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	303 KB

About the Author

Lynne Moss Bahr gained her PhD from Fordham University, USA and is a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity.
Lynne Moss Bahr is a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity. She holds a M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in historical theology (Christianity in Antiquity) from Fordham University, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Continental Philosophy on the Messianic: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben
Chapter 3 - The Seed Growing Secretly: Messianic Time-Creation and Salvation
Chapter 4 - The Parable of the Great Feast: Hospitality, Time, and the Messianic Disruption
Chapter 5 - The Parable of the Night Watchers: To Wait and Watch in the Time of the Now
Chapter 6 - The Things Within: Temporality and the Kingdom of God
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
Bibliography
Index