New Creation Eschatology and the Land (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498245258)

What will the final state of the redeemed look like? Throughout the history of the church, conceptions of the final state have tended to minimize the promise of the new heavens and new earth. In contrast to the historical dominance of spiritual, heavenly, non-temporal conceptions of the final state, the last two decades have witnessed a rise in conceptions that include the redemption of material, earthly, and temporal reality. These ""new creation"" conceptions have included proposals regarding the fulfillment of Old Testament land promises. In New Creation Eschatology and the Land, Steven L. James argues that in recent new creation conceptions of the final state there is a logical inconsistency between the use of Old Testament texts to inform a renewed earth and the exclusion of the territory of Israel from that renewed earth. By examining a select group of new creationists, James shows that the exclusion of the territorial restoration of Israel in a new creation conception fails to appreciate the role of the particular territory in Old Testament prophetic texts and results in an inconsistent new creationism.

Author: Steven L. James
ISBN-10: 1498245250
ISBN-13: 9781498245258
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2017
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d