Apocalypticism as the “Mother of Christianity” – Apocalypticism in the Old and New Testament
Stefan Bayerle
Abstract
Ancient Jewish Apocalypticism plays a major role within concepts of Biblical Theology. The way to consider apocalypticism within the debate on Biblical Theology requires an “open canon” that takes into account writings and data from outside the Old and New Testament. Both, apocalypticism and Biblical Theology, refer to a certain “structure,” inversion, that is closely related to the apocalyptic concept of “transcendence.” All in all, Käsemann’s famous sentence that “apocalypticism is the mother of all Christian theology” goes too far, but, nevertheless, reminds us on the importance of apocalypticism within the discussion on Biblical Theology.
Keywords:
Apocalypticism, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testament, Book of Amos, Testament of Abraham, Eschatology, Prophetic and Apocalyptic Concepts of Judgment, Ernst Käsemann
Bayerle, S. (2015). Apocalypticism as the “Mother of Christianity” – Apocalypticism in the Old and New Testament. Theological Yearbook, 57(4), 491–506. Retrieved from https://ojs.chat.edu.pl/index.php/rt/article/view/76
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