The 'returns to religion': Messianism, Christianity and the revolutionary tradition. Part II: The Pauline tradition

Historical Materialism

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 77-103

  Roberts, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti historicism; Apocalypticism; Christianity; Dialectic; Eschatology; Fidelity; Judaism; Messianism; Transcendence; Truth event

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849117829     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920608X315248     Document Type: Article

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