Abstract
“On earth as it is in heaven”: Matthew’s eschatology as the kingdom of heaven that has come 
 
 In the article time as both “imagined” and “experienced” is explained against the background of the first-century Mediterranean conceptualisation of time. This reading scenario is seen as over against a modern Eurocentric ethnocentric interpretation of the concept "apocalyptic- eschatology”. The aim of the article is to argue that Matthew’s narration of the demolition of the temple in Jerusalem concurs with his belief that the first followers of Jesus experienced the vision of the coming of the Son of man and that both these experiences are presented in Matthew as though Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection are incidents of the past. Matthew’s eschatology centres on the view that the final consummation of time has already begun. The article explores the ethical appeal which is communicated through such an eschatological reading scenario. This appeal is summarised by Jesus’ words “On earth as it is in heaven”. The article consists of a conversation about core issues in mainstream interpretations of what Matthew’s eschatology could be within the narrative’s plot as it contextualised in formative Christianity and formative Judaism. The view assumed in this article is that the “time” and the experiences of Matthew’s church and those of Jesus and his disciples are considered to be integrated within the history of Israel.
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Abstract “On earth as it is in heaven”: Matthew’s eschatology as the kingdom of heaven that has come In the article time as both “imagined” and “experienced” is explained against the background of the first-century Mediterranean conceptualisation of time
In hierdie bydrae het hy die uitspraak gemaak dat die algemene verwagting in die Nuwe Testament oor die opstanding uit die dood, dié is dat ons
Met betrekking tot Matteus se eskatologie is Donald Hagner ([1994] 1996:174176) se bydrae tot die Festschrift vir Robert H Gundry (1982) besonder van belang omdat hy ’n goeie oorsig bied van die relevante tekstuele getuienisse en teologiese vraagstukke.[58]
Summary
Binne die vaktaal van Bybelse teologie is die begrippe eskatologie en apokaliptiek nou verweef. Net soos in die ander Sinoptiese Evangelies, gee Matteus sy begrip van die dood en opstanding van Jesus weer in die lig van hierdie apokaliptiese denke.[17] Die apokalipties-eskatologiese verwagting was dat hierdie wêreld omskep sou word in die uiteindelike koninkryk van God. In die onlangse verlede was daar ’n merkbare toename in die aantal publikasies oor die eskatologiese verwagtinge in die Matteusevangelie.[18] Myns insiens kan aspekte van die eskatologie in Matteus verhelder word deur meer aandag te gee aan Käsemann se insigte en eksegese wat tot sy bekende uitspraak oor apokaliptiek as die moeder van alle Christelike teologie gelei het.
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