New Creation Eschatology and the Land: A Survey of Contemporary Perspectives
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
What will the final state of the redeemed look like? Throughout the history of the church, conceptions of the final state have tended to minimize the promise of the new heavens and new earth. In contrast to the historical dominance of spiritual, heavenly, non-temporal conceptions of the final state, the last two decades have witnessed a rise in conceptions that include the redemption of material, earthly, and temporal reality. These “new creation” conceptions have included proposals regarding the fulfillment of Old Testament land promises. In New Creation Eschatology and the Land, Steven L. James argues that in recent new creation conceptions of the final state there is a logical inconsistency between the use of Old Testament texts to inform a renewed earth and the exclusion of the territory of Israel from that renewed earth. By examining a select group of new creationists, James shows that the exclusion of the territorial restoration of Israel in a new creation conception fails to appreciate the role of the particular territory in Old Testament prophetic texts and results in an inconsistent new creationism.
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“Reading New
Creation Eschatology and the Land by
Steven L. James was truly a delightful experience, much like
opening a box of boutique chocolate and exploring its flavors. This
book not only challenges new creationist theologians to deal with
the inconsistencies of a new creation eschatology that reduces the
land of Israel and its people to a spiritual metaphor, but also
stimulated in me an insatiable hunger to ask more questions and
explore more uncharted territory in a biblical eschatology rooted
in the model prayer of our Messiah: ‘Thy kingdom come!’ I highly
recommend this book, and look forward with great anticipation to
the discussion this book must surely produce about the land of
Israel among new creationist theologians.”
—Seth D. Postell, Academic Dean, Israel College of the Bible,
Netanya, Israel
“A most helpful introduction to new creationism
and challenge to the consistency of its central
conviction.”
—Craig Blaising, Provost and Professor of Theology, Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary
“Steven James is among a small group of dispensationalist
theologians who affirm a fully holistic vision of a new heaven and
new earth as the eschatological future. In this incisive book,
James questions those theologians or biblical scholars who hold to
this vision without any specific role for the nation or land of
Israel. His theological and exegetical probes amount to a
full-fledged challenge to proponents of holistic eschatology (like
myself) to address the role of the biblical land promises for
historical Israel in God’s future renewal of all things.”
—J. Richard Middleton, Professor, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts
Wesleyan College
Product Details
- Title : New Creation Eschatology and the Land: A Survey of Contemporary Perspectives
- Author: James, Steven L.
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781498245241
Steven L. James is Assistant Vice President for Academic
Administration at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort
Worth, Texas. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Systematic
Theology at L.R. Scarborough College at Southwestern.