This is the fortieth anniversary edition of John Robinson's classic text. Honest to God is a bracing and engaging call to re-examine outdated and troublesome images of God.

Description: ""Eschatology is the explication of what must be true of the end, both of history and of the individual, if God is to be the God of the biblical faith. All eschatological statements can finally be reduced to, and their validity tested by, sentences beginning: 'In the end, God . . .'"" J. A. T. Robinson The God revealed in Israel's story is the Lord of history--a God with good purposes for his creation and a God capable of bringing those purposes to pass. All biblical eschatology arises from this fundamental theological insight. If God is this God then what shape must the future...

--It has been the fate of many books on John to be left unfinished, for its interpretation naturally forms the crowning of a lifetime. I have myself been intending to write a book on the Fourth Gospel since the 'fifties, before I broke off (reluctantly) to be Bishop of Woolwich, though I am grateful now that I did not produce it prematurely at that time. It means however that I shall be compelled to refer to and often recapitulate material directly or indirectly related to the Johannine literature, which I have written over the years (some of it indeed while I was bishop). --Many scholars in...

From the author of Honest to God and The Priority of John.

A classic work of Pauline theology.

Studies in Biblical Theology 14

This completely new collection of papers. most of which are either unpublished or have hitherto been almost inaccessible in specialist volumes, sheds light on one of the most original - and controversial - minds in New Testament scholarship. Titles include Did Jesus have a Distinctive Use of Scripture', 'The Shroud and the New Testament', 'Flow Small was the Seed of the Church', The Last Tabu? The Self-consciousness of Jesus', and 'The Fourth Gospel and the Church's Doctrine of the Trinity'. John Robinson, who died in December 1983, was Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge."

In this controversial study, first published in l957. Dr Robinson looked for the origins of the doctrine of the Second Coming in the belief of the early church. His conclusion, that the early church may well have misinterpreted the original teaching of Jesus on the issue, was based on a careful and thorough examination of the New Testament material. In his preface to this reissue, he writes: In the quarter of a century since I worked on the material I am not persuaded that the thesis of the hook has lost its importance Or its credibility. How and why the doctrine of the Parousia or Second...