Social Location of Early Christian Apocalyptic
by Leonard L. Thompson, Appleton, WI
Contents
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I. Definitions and Theses |
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1. Apocalypse |
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2. Apocalyptic Transcendence |
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3. Apocalypticisrn |
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A. Revealed Knowledge and the Cognitive Minority |
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B. Self-Definition of the Cognitive Minority |
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II. An Early Christian Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation |
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1. A Mediated Revelation |
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2. Apocalyptic Transcendence |
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3. Apocalyptic Tribulation |
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4. Social Location in the Roman Empire |
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A. Domitian |
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B. Evidence of Oppression in the Book of Revelation |
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C. Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan |
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D. Johannine Apocalypticists, Christian and Asian Society |
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III. Apocalyptic Transcendence in Pauline Christianity |
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1. Ecstatic Transcendence |
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2. Transformation and Eschatological Transcendence |
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3. Social Location |
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IV. Two Early Christian Tendencies away from Apocalyptic Transcendence |
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1. Proto-Gnostics at Corinth |
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2. Jewish Christianity |
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V. Conclusion: The Social Location of Early Christian Apocalyptic |
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| Bibliography |
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