John Bazzana on his blog commented on a discussion of Bond Helen topicality of the apocalyptic Jesus, a Jesus, according to Bond, now no longer qualifies as a guarantee against the suspicion of subjective projections by the historian.
fact, since the scenarios of environmental disasters are now on the agenda, that's a perspective like that of Mk 13 (earthquakes, famines, cosmic collapse) sounds very familiar today. The Apocalyptic Jesus, in short, no longer comes to us as a foreigner, pace of Schweitzer.
What to say? Helen Bond in my opinion is too good not to notice that that you have raised can be a very interesting question for Christian theology (and I believe that Moltmann has taken plenty of this report between Christian eschatology and the future of creation, even in the context of today's environmental issues), but certainly not concerned with the historical figure of Jesus
Leaving aside the question of how the apocalypse marciana material likely to be traced back to Jesus (and dell'apocalyptic Jesus even supporters tend to recognize only a few historical reminiscences lines), the key point is that the eschatological view of the historical Jesus was not focused on the end of the world, but on the coming of the kingdom of God (+ revelation of the Son man, court etc.).. And the kingdom of God had to do with the restoration of Israel (and the end of domain Rome and its employees), and a utopia of social justice especially for the benefit of poor and oppressed. The eschatology of Jesus, in short, his feet firmly on the ground, and the precision in the land of Palestine and especially in the first century Galilee. ev
Although quite likely that the solution of problems specific to that particular historical context, it rivestisse cosmic colors of their eyes (that which would have entailed a profound transformation of the reality and, in so-called "metaphysical") itself or environmental disasters or the destruction of life on earth, were the object of his reflection and its ad.
But the most striking difference is that while the apocalyptic Jesus "current" referred to earlier Bond is an ecologist its time, namely one that warns of the end of the world to avert the apocalyptic Jesus "historic" was the opposite, a deeply hoped that the advent of next Eschaton and found that rejoice.
So do not say that the historical Jesus apocalyptic can not be co-opted from the debates, ideologies and theologies of our time, but it certainly is not (at least directly) with respect to environmental issues (as well as those war, see nuclear wars, clashes of civilizations, etc..) endangering the life or habitability of our planet.
From this point of view it's me the first to say that: the end-of-the-world-Jesus is not the historical Jesus .
PS Meanwhile we have, I should disclose that Helen Bond a popular book on the historical Jesus at the end of this year. Those who wanted to know its scientific or see what he looks, it also serves here.
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