Diversity in Paul’s Eschatology: Paul’s View on the Parousia and Bodily Resurrection

Diversity in Paul’s Eschatology: Paul’s View on the Parousia and Bodily Resurrection is a bold attempt to unfold the riddles that shroud the eschatological perspectives of Paul in the context of the delay of Parousia. It endeavours to explicate the diversity in Paul’s eschatology from the perspectives of the role of the different concepts of time (linear versus cyclic time), Paul’s Moderate appropriation of dualistic Categories and his use of eschatological language for functional purposes. This study addresses the problem of the delay of parousia and its concomitant effect on the Christian worldview and religious worldviews in general. The book will serve as a textbook on eschatology for seminarians. It not only dwells on the complex features of Paul’s eschatological beliefs but also provides the much-needed information on the nature and the scope of eschatological beliefs in the Old Testament, Apocalypses, Hellenistic Jewish Writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book answers some of the questions of the lay people on the apocalyptic and eschatological beliefs. Academicians too will find this book interesting and stimulating. The present book is the improved version of his doctoral dissertation written in the discipline of New Testament under the able guidance of rev. Fr. Lucien Legrand, a French missionary scholar of St. Peter’s Pontifical Seminary, Bangalore and submitted to the Senate of Serampore College (University) West Bengal, India.