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Date
12/2019
Author
Wolfe, Judith
Keywords
Apocalypse
Eschatology
Millenarianism
Apocatastasis
Friedrich Schleiemacher
Franz Overbeck
Christoph Blumhardt
BT Doctrinal Theology
BDC
R2HP
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This chapter traces trends in nineteenth-century thought concerning eschatology and apocalypticism. Contrary to twentieth-century wisdom, eschatology was of central importance in nineteenth-century Christian consciousness and its philosophical inflections. Radical developments were seen in the doctrines of hell (whose eternal duration was increasingly questioned or rejected in favour of versions of apocatastasis) and the question of an imminent earthly messianic kingdom. Eschatological conceptions of history were secularized in Idealist and Romantic narratives of education and nationalist aspiration. In all these areas, the nineteenth-century eschatological consciousness was overwhelmingly one of continuity between earthly progress and transcendent continuation or fulfilment. This model of continuity began to be questioned in theology and biblical studies in the waning nineteenth century, and collapsed by the dawn of the First World War. Models of rupture now took its place, tendentiously projecting back onto the nineteenth century an ‘eschatological slumber’ from which only the twentieth century roused theology.
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Wolfe , J 2019 , Eschatology . in J Rasmussen , J Wolfe & J Zachhuber (eds) , Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought . Oxford Handbooks , Oxford University Press , Oxford , pp. 676-696 . https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.36
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Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.36
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Copyright © Oxford University Press 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.36
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20042

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