Primitive Christian Eschatology. Being the Hulsean 

 Prize Essay for 1908. By E. C. Dewick, M.A., Tzitor 

 and Dean of St Aidans College, Birkenhead and Teacher 

 in Ecclesiastical EI istory in the University of Liverpool. 



Demy 8vo. pp. xx + 416. Price \os. 6d. net. 



Extract from the Introduction 



Eschatology, dealing as it does with the unknown future, 

 possesses at all times a peculiar fascination for the human 



mind It is indeed true that during the latter part of the 



nineteenth century, the Doctrine of the Last Things seemed 

 to be receding into the background of Christian teaching... 

 but in the last few years this very doctrine has been thrust 

 forward into great prominence by the efforts of a certain 

 school of thought in Germany, who maintain that the very 

 core and essence of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ, 

 lay in his eschatological teaching... and the whole question 

 of the Christian Doctrine of the Last Things stands in the 

 forefront of modern theological problems. 



The method which has been pursued in this essay is as 

 follows : — 



In Part I the main features of Old Testament Eschatology 

 are discussed. 



In Part II we have dealt with the writings of later Juda- 

 ism and especially the apocalyptic literature. 



Part III deals with the most important section of our 

 subject — the eschatology of our Lord. 



In Part IV we have considered the eschatology of the 

 apostles. 



Part V treats of Christian Eschatology in the first and 

 second centuries. 



In Part VI we have endeavoured to indicate the evidential 

 value of Primitive Christian Eschatology, and to point out 

 some of the ways in which it confirms the claims of Christ's 

 Religion. 



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