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Title: The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bartlet, J. Vernon (James Vernon), 1863-1940
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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e State as in false doctrine:while in the Johannine Gospel there is strictly speak-ing no eschatology. There the vivid present experi-ence of the Lords return in the Spirit is everythingto believers (xvi. 17) : the rest is left to the Fatherand His good time. 1 This progress in eschatology, and the absence of reference to anyChristological error, are the final disproof of the view that the Apoc.falls as late as 90-95. Similarly in its glowing passion againstsinners we see the remains of the Boanerges temper, and in factof Old Testament religion, the disciple not yet being perfected and so as his Master in the yearning of Divine Pity. YetJohns idea of religion, the eternal Gospel (xiv. 6) implicit intrue Judaism and explicit in the witness of Jesus, is on itsway to that message of the eternal which meets us in theFirst Epistle and the Gospel. If we place the Apocalypse at c. 75A. D., and these other some ten or fifteen years later, we satisfyall the facts. See the next chapter but one.
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CHAPTER IH. EMPIRE VERSUS CHURCH: LUKE. ROM the time when Pauline missions be-gan to react by their success upon Chris-tian thought, there must have existedtwo distinct attitudes of mind towardsthe Empire and all for which it stood.We have already seen something of this in the do-main of apocalyptic. There the Pauline tendencywas to see in the law and order of the Roman Statean earthly reflection of the Divine rule, a checkupon human self-will in society analogous to thediviner discipline of the Mosaic Law in Israel.Those, on the other hand, who viewed the Empiremore from outside, dwelt on its brute force asthwarting the realization of Gods Kingdom in andthrough His chosen People. If John in his Apoca-lypse shared the latter feeling, the former lived onin one of Pauls companions, Luke, the author of thethird Gospel and its sequel the Acts. His outlookupon the times of the Gentiles, which were feltto have begun in a special sense with the fall of theJewish State in 70, was far more app

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