Apocalyptic Revisited

Schewitzer's understanding of the nature of eschotology = apocalyptic, summed up in a passage found in Geschichte des Leben-Jesu-Forschung (2nd edition, 1913). “there is no assumption of activism on the part of the chosen people. The feeling is one of waiting. Only after the Messiah has made his appearance does the hour of action dawn. Anything undertaken before that time is meaningless,” is correct but he misunderstood its implications. The movement from human stasis to human action following divine intervention — however it is described — implies not the end but the renewal of history Contemporary writers, too, using quite other language, point toward the same situation, the waiting for the renewal of history The intent of the paper is to demonstrate that apocalyptic hope rather than being a- or antihistorical is, at its heart, the hope for a return to history, suspended by the temporary absence of one of the actors, not God but the community of man

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