Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Biblia.com)

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In this book, Stanley Hauerwas explores the significance of eschatological reflection for helping the church negotiate the contemporary world. In part one, “Theological Matters,” Hauerwas directly addresses his understanding of the eschatological character of the Christian faith. In part two, “Church and Politics,” he deals with the political reality of the church in light of the end, addressing...

on Paul’s view that God had dispatched the Spirit of Christ into the believers’ hearts to make them soldiers for Christ, Martyn writes: “The martial, cosmic dimension of Paul’s apocalyptic applies, then, to the church and for that reason Paul can speak of the church itself both as God’s new creation and as the apocalyptic community called to the front trenches in God’s apocalyptic war against the powers of the present evil age.”4 Yoder, who emphasized the significance of the principalities and powers

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