scholarly journals 'n Kennissosiologiese benadering tot die dag van die Here in 2 Petrus

1998 ◽  
Vol 54 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Malan ◽  
Andies Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
World View ◽  
Day Of The Lord ◽  
2 Peter

The day of the Lord in 2 Peter from the perspective of the sociologyof knowledge. The concept the day of the Lord in 2 Peter is, as a mythological expression, an example of analogical language. However, the meaning of this mytheme is not clear to modern people who do not share the mythological world-view of the author of 2 Peter. Although the historical roots ofthe day of the Lord has been thoroughly researched, the aspect of analogical language has not received much attention. The meaning of the day of the Lord needs to be explored with the aid of a method which has the capacity to probe the meaning of analogical language. The sociology of knowledge offers such a method, especially with its potenial to analyse symbolic universes. This article is an atempt at applying the sociology of knowledge to the day of the Lord in 2 Peter in order to render itsmeaning for modern readers.

Renaissance and Modern Thought on the Last Things: A Study in Changing Conceptions

1958 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Patrides
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
Exact Time ◽  
Day Of The Lord ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

Of the changes that have taken place in theology since the Renaissance, none is more striking than the re-interpretation of the Mosaic account of the creation and fall of man, which has passed from the realm of history to that of ‘myth.’ Equally impressive, however, are the changes that have taken place in eschatology. This disagreement with our ancestors is not revolutionary on every point, since at least one fundamental idea, affirmed by George Hakewill in the earlier seventeenth century, still holds true. “That the world shall haue an end,” wrote Hakewill, “is as cleere to Christianity, as that there is a Sun in the firmament: And therefore, whereas there can hardly be named any other article of our faith, which some Heretiques haue not presumed to impugne or call into question; yet to my remembrance I never met with any who questioned this; & though at this day many & eager be the differences among Christians in other points of Religion, yet in this they all agree & ever did, that the world shall haue an end.” If on this, however, all Christians are agreed, the exact time of the Day of the Lord has been the subject of speculation ever since the advent of Christianity, not to mention Jewish apocalyptic thought.

Theophany and Parousia

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Francis Glasson
Keyword(s):  
Day Of The Lord ◽  
The Earth

The importance of the OT theophanies in relation to NT conceptions of the End has never been sufficiently realized. Again and again the prophets and psalmists spoke not merely of the Day of the Lord but they spelled this out in terms of a divine coming. Thus in Mic 1. 3 we read that ‘the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down …’ Psa 96. 13 declares, ‘He cometh to judge the earth.’

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