Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages. By KEVIN L. HUGHES.
G. R. Evans
This study makes a useful complement to the Richard Bauckham's Tudor Apocalypse, which looks back period at this book ends. It would have been interesting see link made. The is not cited, perhaps because here author approaching topic from within different cluster of disciplines. Here we story New Testament times, told principally in terms history exegesis 2 Thessalonians. Antichrist was encouraged emerge pages Scripture course early Christian debate. Thess. 2:3–4 contributes theme as deceiver and usurper, reverse what Christ is, pretender his throne. urgency expectation second coming gave way increasingly complex speculation about end come when where, role process an figure. genre apocalyptic literature emerged Hellenistic Judaism Christianity until third century.
The Journal of Theological Studies