I, too, am very interested in this book and forthcoming articles. I have found so much of the New Testament writings to be illuminated by reading them as texts written *sub specie apocalypsis.* Paul's metaphor--if indeed it was a metaphor at all--of Christ as the last Adam makes much more sense when you consider it from an apocalyptic st…
I, too, am very interested in this book and forthcoming articles. I have found so much of the New Testament writings to be illuminated by reading them as texts written *sub specie apocalypsis.* Paul's metaphor--if indeed it was a metaphor at all--of Christ as the last Adam makes much more sense when you consider it from an apocalyptic standpoint that creation was bookended by the creation of man, Adam, and the coming of the fully human one, the New Adam. All of history, in the eyes of Paul, concerns the creation and fulfilment of Man, from the Creation to the Coming and Return of the Messiah. It is only for the fact that history did not end as Paul had expected that the power of this cosmic narrative has been lost on us; or, at least it has for me.
I, too, am very interested in this book and forthcoming articles. I have found so much of the New Testament writings to be illuminated by reading them as texts written *sub specie apocalypsis.* Paul's metaphor--if indeed it was a metaphor at all--of Christ as the last Adam makes much more sense when you consider it from an apocalyptic standpoint that creation was bookended by the creation of man, Adam, and the coming of the fully human one, the New Adam. All of history, in the eyes of Paul, concerns the creation and fulfilment of Man, from the Creation to the Coming and Return of the Messiah. It is only for the fact that history did not end as Paul had expected that the power of this cosmic narrative has been lost on us; or, at least it has for me.
Well now I feel like I have to come up with a still better insight than that.