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Irenaeus: The Most Dangerous Early Heretic?

Who was the most dangerous early heretic? Simon Magus, Marcion, Valentinus, Justin Martyr, or Irenaeus of Lyon? Why should modern Christians care? Though considered a major saint by the Church of Rome, the Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestants, Irenaeus was hot and cold on doctrine. Could Irenaeus have been the most dangerous of early heretics? Was Irenaeus a binitarian or trinitarian? Was he a millennialist? Did Irenaeus quote apocryphal books as scripture? Did he rely on them and traditions of men to push non-biblical doctrines? Did he claim to know Polycarp of Smyrna and endorse him, but not hold to his and the Apostle John's practices regarding the biblical Passover? What about the 'Lord's Day'? Did Pope Benedict XVI refer to Irenaeus as the "true founder of Catholic theology'? Do Protestants consider him the most important second century source of "orthodoxy'? Was Irenaeus wrong about the founding and succession from the Apostles Peter and Paul related to Rome according to Roman Catholic scholars? What about heaven? Who really had (and still has) true apostolic succession? Should the Book of Revelation be allegorized? Did Irenaeus confuse the Beast and the Antichrist? What about 666? What are some of the reasons Christians would want to know about Irenaeus and his teachings today? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.

A detailed and referenced article of related interest is available titled 'Irenaeus: The Most Dangerous Heretic?'

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location: the solar system

Overview

A medium-sized yellow star with a modest family of planets, the “mother sun” is the cradle of the now-interstellar human species. Life is old here, with a rich and complex history going back for more than a terasecond.

Historiography

Dates are measured both in Earth Years (31.6 Ms) and in total seconds, the reference for both being “After Sun Eater” (ASE), which is used not because anyone particularly likes Sun Eater, but because his deeds are easily correlated with solar eclipses that can be precisely defined from orbital data.

Other major date systems include:

Binitarian Calendar (BinCal): Based on the dispensation of the Binitarian holy texts 1194 years before the zero year of the Sun Eater calendar, the BinCal is widespread in the east and south continents

Digital Epoch (DE): Beginning more or less arbitrarily in year 310 ASE, this is the “computer-friendly” date system widely used in technical settings, and increasingly in everyday life

Magical Epoch (ME): Functionally similar to the DE system, the Magical Epoch has the “Conifer Telltale” detonation test as its zero time. It is fairly obscure, only used, unsurprisingly, in the context of magical stuff.

The “present day” is assumed to be second 20^10 of the Magical Epoch, year 2188 of the Binitarian Calendar, year 994 ASE, 21.5768 gigaseconds into the Digital Epoch.

The System

Inner System

Dee

The ancient Piprima civilization wrote on the Obelisk of the Planets that Dee was an ethereal counterpart to migrating swallows, due to its small size and relatively fast back-and-forth motion. They associated its movement with crops and imagined it as an arbiter of prosperity and health.

A small, rocky planet, Dee is tidally locked: one hemisphere in eternal, scorching daylight, the other in eternal night. Despite its proximity to the sun, the night side of Dee is quite cold and hosts a lot of water ice. Humans have built some mines and cities near the terminator, underground to protect against high-energy solar radiation. Dee civilization is notable for its production of solar sail craft, used in power generation and shipping throughout the inner system.

Daa

The Obelisk of the Planets characterized Daa as a counterpart to Dee, chasing it across the sky but forever falling behind, like a falcon that could never catch up to a swallow, condemned to starvation. Indeed, the Piprima tradition treated Daa as a harbinger of famine when moving “away from” Dee, and a charm for successful hunting when moving “towards” it. Conjunctions between the two were omens of plenty.

In a 2:1 resonance orbit with the sun, Daa is thoroughly heated and much less hospitable than Dee. Several thousand orcs live in “caravan-cities”, trains of rugged crawler-vehicles that follow the terminator across the parched landscape. Wildly divergent religious beliefs produce cultural divides between “strands” of the cities.

Katua

Big and bright in morning and evening skies, Katua has long held a special sway over human imaginations. The first record of understanding it as one object and not a distinct “morning star” and “evening star” was in our old friend, the Obelisk of the Planets. Occupying the border between day and night, the planet was seen as a symbol of change, especially in the forms of birth and death. Katua was a fate-like figure who dictated the lifespans of mortal humans. “May Katua have mercy” was a phrase of blessing often appended to the names of kings of Piprima in many ancient texts.

We now know that Katua is similar in size to earth, but with a dummy THICC atmosphere that makes its surface a hellscape. Orbited by four small moons. Humans and orcs permanently inhabit the four small moons as well as giant, feudal cloud-cities floating in the Katua’s upper atmosphere. Robotic exploration of the surface is conducted often. [more about major cloud cities]

Ulta

Smallest and closest-orbiting moon

Ara

Largest moon, orbiting at a high inclination

Rua

A small moon on the ecliptic

Earth System

Mother Earth

The blueprint of all habitable planets, this terrestrial world has a relatively strong magnetosphere, a surface with active plate tectonics, vast areas of ocean, and diverse life forms of all kinds. It was here that humans first evolved, and where billions live.

The most definitive social unit of Earth is the Megacity – large areas of densely populated artificial environment. The chief megacities are:

Liopolu

Liopolu (pop 2E+8) is a coastal port city. It was formed in 310 yr. ASE from the Kaulahao Polu Republic, a maritime successor state to Sun Eater’s Empire; and the Liomahina Republic, which had been mainly agrarian under Sun Eater but rapidly industrialized post-empire. Its climate is rather cold, so many of its main public spaces are sub-surface.

Talfnapiti

(pop. 4E+7), the Peach Coast, has a long history as an industrial nexus between the vast desert to its south and the populous regions to its north.

Palenaani

(pop 6E+7), the Honey Coast, is renowned for its nice weather and steep, narrow streets. It’s a storied center of research and education

Geopolus

(pop. 8E+7), spanning the three large volcanic islands of Tiradelfa and largely supplied by vast pelagic agriculture systems, is considered by many to be a totally unique society. Vast pontoon bridges cross the huge stretches of deep ocean between the islands. Piers stretch out from the coasts with buildings rising dozens of stories above the sea. The northeasternmost island is designated for natural preservation, and is home to many species found nowhere else.

Charra Kell

(pop 6E+7) is absolutely massive, almost indescribably diverse and dynamic. Notable for the sheer scale of its monolithic apartment buildings.

Pen Tappodam

(pop 5E+7), the city of five rivers, is Totally Not Seattle.

About 85% of Earth’s population live in these megacities, but there are many other noteworthy regions outside them.

Earth-orbital regions

Low Earth Orbit

Several large space stations exist here. After a catastrophic atmospheric entry event, international law requires that low-orbit stations be modular and rapidly dismantleable to minimize the damage they can inflict on the surface of Earth.

Earth-Moon Lagrange Points

Stable orbits with relatively low delta-V requirements to reach from the Moon, the Lagrange Points are a natural place for space stations. And do they ever have space stations!

An Earth-dominated space city - it’s location counter to the moon makes it a symbol of the Earthling Space Renaissance and the end of Lunar hegemony.

Carcinized orcs live here. Largest lagrange point station due to location prograde of the Moon

Geostationary Orbit

This is where the space elevators anchor. Lots of cargo is transferred here, and space stations built in the modular style of the LEO stations (and with a lot of shared standard components)

Earth’s Moon

The classic O’Niellian moon: mining and processing ores, then catapulting them to Low Earth Orbit and the Lagrange Points for fabrication into gigantic space stations and spacecraft. Vast tunnel-cities home to more than a billion people. Solar arrays towering above the poles on rotating platforms to get that sweet eternal sunshine. Humans first settled the moon in 355 yr. ASE after a mysterious supernatural force compelled them to venture to the stars, with the moon as the starting point.

The moon’s topography is characterized by spiky mountains and enchanting caverns containing rare and beautiful gems. It was once its own planet, but was gradually captured by earth’s gravity (this is different from our universe’s moon, which coalesced from a collision between earth and another planet!) In a matter of a few billion years the moon’s orbit may decay and it will collide with the earth!

Socially, the Moon is dominated by the Moonicipality, a sprawling bureaucracy that maintains the mostly underground city near the moon’s north pole where most of its people live and work. Notable among Moonicipal ventures are the “FedSpheres”, huge spherical caverns created by underground nuclear blasts. The first of these were deliberately built on the far side of the moon as a gesture of independence from Earth, where at the time governments were uninterested in the affairs of the moon.

Asteroid Belt

The asteroid belt is a thinly dispersed region of small-ish space rocks. Some are the remains of ancient, destroyed planets, some the hearts of planets never formed, but most are piles of dust and rock that gently accrued together over billions of years.

Most of the asteroids are uninhabited. Hundreds, however, are dotted with bubble villages where small human populations dwell.

Among some of the asteroids live “aster-elves”, humans adapted to the vacuum of space. They hold pure oxygen in their lungs, which they deplete very slowly. They carry spherical fuel tanks atop their heads, which power pistol-like handheld rocket thrusters. They dissipate heat through their impermeable skin, and through leaf-shaped structures protruding from their backs. Many believe they’re just mythical, but those few ‘nauts who see them never forget.

Dwarf planets:

Asteroids large enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium are called “dwarf planets.”

Shoy

Only ever faintly visible from earth in the darkest and clearest conditions, Shoy was not recognized as a planet until after the invention of the telescope. Its (idk how yet) resonance with Kotha prompted its discoverers to name it after the mythical Kotha’s companion, lord of all bison.

A third the mass of Earth’s moon, Shoy today is filled with deep rotating underground cities. Most are cone-shaped to combine their centrifugal force with the gravity of the dwarf planet. The closer to the surface, the shallower the cone, thanks to our old friend the inverse-square law. The largest cone-city by far, Fissile Fount, is not actually a cone, but a curved funnel like shape that gently changes its slope from [PENDING ANGLE] just below the surface to [PENDING ANGLE] at its lowest depth of [PENDING DEPTH].

The Great Crystal Ball is a major cultural landmark: a glittering garden-dome over Featherman Crater, filled with magnificent strains of giant flowers found nowhere else, and home of the historic first landing site, preserved as a museum.

Its moonlet Thellei has long been a pivotal port of call for ships heading outward. Mining and shipbuilding are its predominant industries.

Kotha

The only belt body easily visible from Earth with the naked eye, Kotha has been interpreted differently across many cultures. The Obelisk of the Planets calls it Dasra and associates it with memory, whereas the Tammarong associated it with their farming god Kotha, and the name stuck.

A moon-and-a-quarter in mass, surface sparsely dotted with majestic bubble-cities, Kotha is regarded by many as the crown jewel of the belt. Its seventeen moons are iconic, lauded in poetry and art. Seeing all the moons in conjunction is a huge tourist event.

Its largest city is Golden Dome, considered an architectural wonder and home to over a million people. Also noteworthy is Silver Spire, the base of a space elevator, and Expo Dome, constructed as a showcase of the wonders of every world in the solar system on Gigasecond 20 D.E.

Dess

A quarter the mass of Earth’s moon, Dess is something of a backwater. Its inclined orbit it’s inconvenient for shipping; the million or so residents of its impoverished tin-can means cities are largely dependent on import for essential goods.

Entoormedon

The terraformed one! Four-fifths moon mass, its craters are turned to seas of towering surf rimmed by forested mountains. Rolling grasslands are traversed by sprightly deer-like creatures. Birds that could never fly in earth’s gravity grace the skies. A tourist destination of the outer belt, for obvious reasons.

Prominent Asteroids:

Istiris

“Gateway to the Belt”, about two-thirds of the way between Earth and Shoy, Istiris was one of the first asteroids to be settled.

Darican

“Capital of the little rocks”, Darican is a heavily urbanized asteroid orbiting about halfway between Kotha and Entoormedon. Due to its near lack of gravity well, it’s preferable to any dwarf planet as a fueling and transfer station, especially for tight-margined independent ore-haulers. The city of Darican takes the form of a tangle of vast wheels - slowly rotating centrifuges - some concentric, some interlocked - that are home to tens of millions of people. A central mast extends outward for miles in each direction, providing a stationary mooring point for vessels coming and going.

Tollemm

Vesk

Named fairly recently after the pan-Maxamari deity of metalwork, Vesk is a precious metal world. Rapidly settled in a literal gold rush before it turned out no one could do much better than break even shipping metals back to earth, it became, by necessity, a world of artists - a society dedicated to making precious metals into strange and beautiful goods.

The Heavenly Gardens

A canvas sphere containing an immense volume of air. The microgravity atmosphere hosts floating islands, sky-ships, bird-people, aerojellyfish, and many other natural wonders.

Gas Giants:

Mind-bogglingly big planets with no solid surface, the gas giants are like little suns, hosting families of moons that are like planets unto themselves! Gas giant subsystems tend to develop more insular shared cultures due to their distance from the rest of civilization.

Theshu

The ancient Tammarong civilization associated this bright, slow-moving planet with their chief deity Theshu - bringer of dreams and fertility, ultimate wellspring of life spiritual and physical. Its opposition to the sun, when it’s brightest, was one of the most significant festivals, traditions from which continue to this day.

This veneration was well-deserved: king of planets, with the mass of over three hundred earths, and orbited by as many moons, Theshu is truly sublime. Its gravitational force shapes the asteroid belt, its magnetic field is deadly to humans without a lot of shielding, many of its moons are planets in their own right.

Needless to say, no one lives on Theshu itself (though there are a few remotely operated atmospheric research platforms). But its moons host a vibrant civilization.

Iscu

A moon in the process of destruction! Iscu, due to a slowly decaying orbit and intense tidal forces, is breaking up and spewing giant chunks of rock into space. It is very dangerous, but scientists persist in exploring it!

Sebzevaan

A large, rocky moon. All its cities are deep underground due to radiation from Theshu. One and a third the mass of Earth’s moon, it is home of a geothermal foundry powerhouse civilization.

Tzashe

A small moon with a rotating cylinder-city at its center. Settled because it is conveniently positioned to derive power from tidal forces via huge “tether-towers” extending megameters above the surface.

Essetoi

Two thirds the mass of Earth’s moon. Huge caves and volcanoes.

Reethar

With an artificial magnetosphere, three quarters the mass of Earth’s moon, Reethar is an industrial and cultural hub of the Theshu subsystem. Elegant, almost gothic bubble domes dot its surface, connected by high-speed railways that are a matter of pride for the moon’s inhabitants.

Telbi

Largest moon in the solar system (roughly three quarters the mass of Earth), it has its own moon! The tidal force of this moon makes the surface of Telbi safe, radiation-wise, for habitation. People live in gigantic bubble-cities. Terraforming has been attempted but was unsuccessful in making the surface human-habitable; only scary lichens survive amidst the caustic rain.

Telbitzi

The moon-moon of Telbi, a spaceport and staging point.

Other Moon names

Thesti

The ancient Tammarong associated the planet Thesti with their god of healing, judgement and death. The god Thesti was a mysterious figure, and the planet turned out to be no different!

A hundred times the mass of the earth, surrounded by a shimmering ring system, and with a near-90-degree axial tilt, Thesti is truly a world of wonder and intrigue.

The Rings

A vast disc of ice chunks, the ring system is a largely mysterious wasteland. It’s insanely vast. Like a sea of ice floes covering more than 80 times the surface area of earth, all shifting and drifting in three dimensions with the gravitational influences of mountain-sized moonlets, it’s a surreal and haunting place. The rings of Thesti are sparsely populated, but home to a number of cultures:

The iceworms are serpentine cyborgs slithering among the chunks of ice and rock. They rarely contact others and remain largely mysterious to human knowledge.

Ring-scrapers search the ring system for valuable minerals and objects of scientific intrigue. A meager livelihood dwelling in small spaceships, the ring-scraping life produces tough people.

There is also a population of aster-elves in the innermost rings. They are more sedentary than most of the belt aster-elves, more often inhabiting one meteorite as something of a genus loci than moving between them.

Shesse

Used to have rivers and lakes. Intricate sedimentary formations remain to this day.

Beeleh

The surface of this moon is covered in huge tubular structures that give it a “fuzzy” look from a distance. There’s a mysterious crystalline mountain that is seemingly unrelated to the geology of the rest of the moon...and has grown slightly over time!

Estaza

Most of the above described moons are equatorial with respect to Thesti, near-perpendicular to the disc of the rest of the solar system. Estaza, however, is roughly coplanar with Earth and the other planets, making it a valuable fueling station for ships heading further into or out of the Thesti system. Its shape is irregular, its mass less than a tenth that of Earth’s moon, and its composition rocky and icy, though its ice reserves have been depleted to an alarming extent to make fuel for the ships passing through.

Outer Planets

The cold, dark outer region of the solar system is a bit of a wilderness. Its planetary systems populated by only the strongest of people, the lags in communication and travel time painfully long, mysteries around every corner.

Ashta

An ice giant with some cloud cities. Dozens of moons, most inhabited by a blue-skinned strain of long-lived cyborg humans.

In the upper atmosphere of Ashta itself is the Cloud Palace, a blocky structure of pumice-like aerogel (helium-gel?) that floats in its gaseous environment. It is here that the Council of Kings convenes in times of great importance.

Thetnia

Very low-orbiting moonlet that serves as a staging point for travel to the cloud-cities.

Deshta

A world of smooth icy plains and towering mountains. Capital of the Ashta Federative Empire and a premier center of cybernetic research

Alfna

A moon with enough atmosphere for wind and snow! wowee! Relatively thin atmosphere, but with less gravity than Earth’s moon, so people travel with gigantic. lightweight sail-like wings.

Esh

Subsurface water ocean that is considered sacred. Pyramid-shaped cities on the surface

Rinla

A dry, rocky, spherical moon with several active volcanoes. Its orbit closely resonates with that of Esh. A handful of vast bubble cities house its population.

Huusek

A solid, icy world nearly twice the mass of earth, Huusek is a foreboding world where few dare venture. Few, but not none! Giant centipedes, brought by humans, have evolved to be right at home in the brutal gravity and temperature conditions. And populations of humans and orcs have adapted to live in bubbles, even under the immense gravity the world exerts! They’re very short though lol. Huusek is named after a Stone Tree goddess of summer, and has several moons:

Thuusek

Two thirds the mass of Earth, Thuusek is a huge sphere of ice. Named after the mythical daughter of Huusek and patron goddess of migratory birds, it is mostly uninhabited save for researchers.

Espna

Subsurface hydrocarbon ocean? Only place in the Huusek system with an interplanetary-grade spaceport, making it de facto capital of the Huusek subsystem

Eshei

Giant ice spikes

Essenai

An ice giant with one spherical moon. Supercritical fluids deep in its atmosphere host native extraterrestrial life! An intergovernmental accords established a mandate that only a particular Essenani Liaison could interact with the planet itself.

Rasseku

Discovered well into the digital epoch, Rasseku remains something of a frontier world. A gaseous planet only twice the mass of Earth

It has a few major moons:

Dasta

Tubular, maaaan. Nearly a fifth the mass of Earth’s moon, Dasta is shaped like a cylinder.

Sesta

Small, icy and spherical, site of the only permanently inhabited base in the Rasseku system. It is about a quarter the mass of Earth’s moon.

Driani

Even in the faint sunlight of Rasseku, Driani is a world of darkness. Two thirds the mass of Earth’s moon but with one of the lowest observed albedos in the solar system.

The Fringe

The extremities of the solar system are a true wilderness. Few have ventured here,fewer heard back from, but It is thought that a few trans-Essanani and trans-Rassek objects host fusion-powered tunnel towns of rugged settlers determined to live free and far from the rest of humanity.

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Do you recommend any articles or books on the development of the doctrine of A) The Trinity, B) The Hypostatic Union, or C) Guardian Angels?

I'm not sure if I can give too much help about this, either. In terms of general overviews, I don't think I can recommend too many. Let's see what I have....

I'm going to get the Guardian Angels out of the way, first; Fr. Jean Danielou wrote a book, translated by David Heimann into English, called The Angels and Their Mission According to the Early Church Fathers. It's not just about guardian angels, but it does show how thoughts on angels shifted a little over time, and I found the bits and pieces of liturgical mysticism found in the work to be interesting. If you're okay trading emails privately, I have a (badly formatted) copy of this book that I am willing to send. Moving on to the Trinity....

This is a little before Christianity, but David Boyarin (who is very interested in mapping out the 'parting of the ways' of Christianity and Judaism) wrote an article called "Beyond Judaisms: Meṭaṭron and the Divine Polymorphy of Ancient Judaism" which suggests that ancient Judaism was a lot more complicated than previously imagined, moving it away from a model of competing religious sects along Christian lines and more fitting a Greek model where strands of competing religious thought could be found even within the same competing sectarian group. 'Polymorphous Judaism,' he suggests, included at least a one current of binitarian thought that was later expelled by normative Judaism. He admits that this idea is controversial, and I don't know exactly how this article was received by the academic community, but I know that his book on the Partition of Judeo-Christianity is very well regarded by all Jewish Studies scholars I have spoken to - it was even recommended by to me by one.

(While we are on the topic of Judaism, if you're interested in how medieval Jews felt and thought about the Trinity, David Berger's translation and commentary on the Niẓẓaḥon Vetus, a Jewish polemical text written against Christian doctrine during the thirteenth century, just as Christian sectarian feelings were intensifying considerably.)

In terms of early development of Trinitarian doctrine, a popular (non-academic) book is by Karen Armstrong, A History of God. It's not all about Trinitarian conflict, but it is supposed to be an overview of the three major Abrahamic faiths, so it does come up for a considerable amount of time. I always feel a little hesitant recommending her, because I do feel like she has a tendency of representing her own opinions as the academic consensus and she definitely has ideological motives, but it's still very informative.

Speaking of popular books with ideological motivations, I cannot say for myself, but I have heard good things about Rod Bennett's The Great Apostasy That Wasn't, a book about the Council of Nicaea and Saing Athanasius of Alexandria in particular. It was meant to defend orthodox Christianity's claims against restorationist Christian sects (often non-Trinitarian) that claim that the Council corrupted the Antenicene faith.

This is waaaay after what you're looking for, but "Relationality and Difference in the Mysticism of Pierre de Bérulle" talks about how that Cardinal understood the Trinity and Incarnation in a mystic sense, and since he is the father of the French school of spirituality, that might be of interest to you.

So, again, not a lot of objective overviews; sorry about that. If you have anything more specific that you want, I can dig around more, though!

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Modern Christianity (Part I)

This post is part of an ongoing series examining the Christology of the Apocalypse of John.

As a professing Christian standing in the Great Tradition of the Church, I believe that the faith and practices of early followers of Jesus form an important authority for contemporary expressions of Christianity. Regarding devotional practice, worship of Jesus remains not only acceptable, but is in fact…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Actions

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Icon of the Holy Trinity (Rubilev)

As already touched on through the examination of names and images, Jesus performs a number of actions in the Apocalypse. This section notes three of the most important active roles fulfilled by Jesus: Seer, Sacrifice, and Conqueror, each of which ultimately reveal Jesus…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Introduction

After nearly 2,000 years, the study of Christology—the study of the person, nature, and role of Jesus[1]—continues as a popular, relevant, and important realm of theological inquiry. Indeed, it would not be an overstatement to say that Christology forms the economic basis for all truly orthodox Christian theology.[2]Studies of the history of Christology—especially the Christology of the earliest…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Bibliography

This post is the final in the series examining the Christology of the Apocalypse of John.

Ancient Sources

Clement of Alexandria. Quis Dives Salvetur. Edited by P. Mordaunt Barnard. Texts and Studies 5, 2. Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1967.

English Standard Version Bible. New York: Crossway, 2010.

Epistle of Barnabas. Translated by Bart D. Ehrman. The Apostolic Fathers: Volume Two. Loeb Classical…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Conclusions

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This study has undertaken an investigation of the Christology of the Apocalypse of John, seeking to fill a lacunae that has only been rarely and partially addressed in contemporary scholarship. This project has not sought to exhaustively address any of the issues mentioned above, only to draw together…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Modern Christianity (Part III)

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Revelation also highlights the importance of doxology in the contemporary world. Throughout the history of Christological development, interpretations of who Jesus is necessarily took place in the context of the place given him in Christian devotional practices.[1]While there are obviously limits to…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Modern Christianity (Part II)

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The Apocalypse holds a unique position within the Christian scriptures, being the only piece of explicitly Christian prophetic material to make the canonical cut. First and foremost, Christians must engage Revelation’s prophetic utterances within a context of Old Testament prophecy, much of which…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Early Christianity (Part III)

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While early Christian literature remains maddeningly obscure in its identification of source texts, theological influences, and employment of traditional materials—thereby rendering futile many attempts at identifying a single source as the genesis for any given idea or practice—Revelation’s general…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Early Christianity (Part II)

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Of course, the profusion of Jesus devotion in Revelation is not unique to the Apocalypse alone, but rather stands in continuity with other now–New Testament literature. John’s Christology—especially the implicit recognition of the divinity of Jesus, his identification with Yahweh, and worthiness of…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Implications for Early Christianity (Part I)

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It is now the place to examine the implications for early Christianity derived from this study of Revelation. Before proceeding, this project would be remiss to extract the Christology of Revelation from its larger rhetorical and theological aims, which convey to readers that God—through the Messiah…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Christological Findings

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Revelation’s Christological portrait paints Jesus as Lord through a variety of descriptors—names, images, and actions—but also through devotional identification of Jesus with Yahweh. Jesus functions as the visible form of Yahweh, the eternal God of Israel, whose redemptive work on earth and eschatological…

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Jesus in the Apocalypse of John: Hymnic Devotion

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Consideration of additional hymnic evidence in Revelation confirms the appropriateness of Jesus’ worship alongside God. While Revelation’s hymns are sometimes less directly Christological than Paul’s adaptations and sometimes are argued to be literary transformation of Ephesian liturgical hymns,[1]the…

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