THEO 202 Exam 5 questions with answers graded A+

THEO 202 Exam 5 questions with answers graded A+Eschatology - correct answer the doctrine of last things Modernized Eschatology - correct answer - Liberal approach - The continuing Christianization of the social order would be the exemplification of the real meaning of the second coming - Adolf von Harnack DE modernized Eschatology - correct answer - Jesus preached a future kingdom that would be radically supernatural and sudden in its coming, and discontinuous from human society as previously experienced - Jesus was mistaken failing in his attempt to introduce his contemporaries to this cosmic kingdom and thus was destroyed - Albert Schweitzer Realized Eschatology - correct answer - Dodd insisted that the content of Jesus' message was not a future coming and a future kingdom; rather, with the advent of Jesus the kingdom of God had already arrived - Instead of looking ahead for future fulfillments of prophecy one should note the ways they are already fulfilled - C.H. Dodd Existential Eschatology - correct answer - Eschatological realities like resurrection, eternal life, and the coming of the spirit of anti-Christ do not depend on whether a particular event has yet transpired for they are true in a timeless, existential sense - Rudolf Bultmann Politicized Eschatology - correct answer - Moltmann called upon the church to mediate the presence of Christ, who in turn will mediate the future of God - Moltmann developed a political theory to transform the world - Jürgen Moltmann