Description
The problem of world-history and its meaning is acute. In a scientific age we are also becoming historically conscious, realising how many of our contemporary problems cannot be solved without an understanding of their historical perspective. The whole conception of world-history is rooted in Christianity, and the Christian faith proclaims God’s special revelation through His Son as the key to historical meaning.
How does this Salvation History relate to the complex events of our historical existence? Does God only work in Salvation History or is there also a general revelation of His presence? In this comprehensive and magisterial study, the author suggests answers to these and other questions, believing that only by examining the problems in the light of the biblical revelation, and the meaning it gives to history, can they be understood.
About the Author
Eric Charles Rust was Tutor at Rawdon College, West Yorkshire.
Contents
Part I. The Basic Principles
I. The Enigma of History
II. History as a Process of Nature
III. Utopian Illusions
IV. History and the Eternal Order
V. Salvation History and the History of Religions
VI. Salvation History as Historical Myth
Part II. The Course of Salvation History and Its Eschatological Framework
VII. Israel: The Covenant and the Promises
VIII. The Failure of the Nation and the Doctrine of the Remnant
IX. The Travail of the Exile and the Deepening Revelation
X. The Fulness of Time and the Coming of the Kingdom
XI. The Son of Man and the Kingdom of God
XII. Paul’s Understanding of History
XIII. The Gospel and Hellenism
Part III. Salvation History and World History
XIV. History and Eschatology
XV. Secular History and Fallen Man
XVI. Fallen Man and Community
XVII. Salvation History and the New Humanity
XVIII. Secular History and the Divine Sovereignty
XIX. The End of History
Indexes
Endorsements and Reviews
Dr. Rust knows his literature very well and sides bravely with the realistic over against the idealistic and moralistic interpreters…[this book] it will certainly prove to be the best modern textbook on the subject.Otto A. Piper in Review & Expositor, Volume 54, Issue 3, 1957.
