The Parousia in the New Testament

A.L. Moore

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966. Reproduced here by permission of the author.

Table of Contents

Title page   I. Introduction x II. The Background of N.T. Expectation 7 III. Consistent Eschatology 35 IV. Realised Eschatology 49 V. Continental Demythologizing 67 VI. Salvation-History and the Parousia in the N.T. 80 VII. The N.T. Insistence on the imminence of the Parousia 92 VIII. Did the Early church delimit its expectation of the Parousia? 108 IX. The early church's near Expectation of the Parousia 160 X. Did Jesus delimit his expectation of the Parousia? 175. XI. Jesus' near expectation of the Parousia 191 XII. The Significance of the N.T. imminent expectation of the Parousia for the life of the church today 207   Periodicals cited, with abbreviations 219   Bibliography of authorities cited or consulted, with abbreviations used 220   Index of Biblical References 245