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"What about those instances in which a demon manifests in a Christian? In most cases the demon entered before the believer's conversion to Christianity, and the evil spirit continued to control some part of the Christian's life because the specific occult sin was never renounced. The demon claims squatters rights."
-- Bob Larson
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Preterism: Andrew Perriman: New Testament Eschatology and the Emerging Church
Posted on Thursday, July 31 @ 13:07:30 PDT by Virgil |
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As many of you may already know, Andrew Perriman is the author of "The Coming of the Son of Man, New Testament Eschatology for an Emerging Church." Andrew recently sat for an interview with Pecipice Magazine and answers some really good questions, like If what you’re saying is true, that in many ways we have moved beyond eschatology, how should that change how we envision being Jesus followers in the here and now?
One of the hallmarks of the Emerging Church is its desire, it commitment, to move beyond traditionalism, to examine various aspects of Christian faith with an openness to new answers- and new questions. While critics often (unfairly) accuse the movement of "rejecting the Bible", the reality is that those immersed within the EC conversation are often willing to embrace the complexities of the Bible in ways that are unfamiliar to others. And embracing the Bible means entering into the story, understanding the journey as it was for the earliest believers, as part of the process in receiving it as our own.
Andrew Perriman is actively engaged on that quest. His book the Coming of the Son of Man: New Testament Eschatology for the Emerging Church offers penetrating insight into the apocalyptic tradition and the circumstances in which it was written. Grounded in history and textual tradition, Perriman's book takes our understanding of New Testament escahtology in some - what may be to many - very surprising directions. I recently had the chance to speak with Andrew about his book.
Click here to read the entire interview
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Re: Andrew Perriman: New Testament Eschatology and the Emerging Church (Score: 1)
 by Islamaphobe on Friday, August 01 @ 17:38:12 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | While I think that the Emerging Church shows some signs of helping Christianity toward a badly needed renewal of its theological underpinning, I find myself frustrated by the pronounced tendency of some of its leading figures to embrace elements of liberal social theory as well as the approach to biblical study that enjoys general favor among those whom I label "mainstream" biblical scholars; i.e. liberal theologians. Andrew Perriman is exhibit A for me in this regard. Like his fellow Brit N. T. Wright, he boldly asserts the belief that the Book of Daniel is a product of the second century BC without exhibiting the slightest awareness of the weaknesses in this position. I fear that Gleason Archer's statement to the effect that the Maccabean dating of Daniel is one of the most assured results of modern biblical scholarship remains almost as true today as it was twenty years or so ago when he wrote it.
I have to hope that some people within the emergent movement are open to the possibility that there was a genuine prophet Daniel who lived in sixth-century Babylon and that the one like a son of man of Daniel 7:13-14 may actually be Jesus Christ rather than some kind of "symbolic representation of a concept: namely the saints of the Most High" (to quote from his article). Perriman's position seems to be one in which he is trying to assign divine inspiration to a supposedly pseudepigraphal work that was supposedly written with the time of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV in mind. The failed prophecies were then somehow reworked to fit the Roman era during the first century AD.
It is my judgment that Emergent still has a very long way to go before it emerges from the intellectual straitjacket of liberalism. |
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