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ortho-affinity, 29, 263n1
orthodoxy, 29
orthopathy, 29
orthopraxy, 29
otherness. See social dualism
parachurch organizations, 247, 296n8
paradigm shift, 8–9, 14–18, 30,159–160
parousia (presence), 197–199
participatory eschatology: judgment in, 203–206; and parousia, 197–199; and the story of Jonah, 201–203; 3-D, 193–197, 283n5; vs. deterministic eschatology, 196–197, 199–201
Patrick, Saint, 227
Paul, Apostle: evoking the peaceable kingdom, 150, 151–152, 157; on knowledge, 166–168, 234; on love, 154–156, 168–172, 238–239; on pluralism, 209–211; reconciling with the gospel, 20, 137–138, 142–146, 156–157; relation to Jesus, 36, 179; on spiritual maturation, 100, 238–239; use of parousia, 198; on work of God, 101, 228. See also Romans
Pax Romana, 40
peace, 69–70, 124–125, 253
peaceable kingdom: Biblical foretastes of, 63–65; evoked by Paul, 150, 151–152, 157; persistent dream of, 59–62; as promise of God, 65–66; realizing in the present, 62–63, 130; scriptural references to, 59–62, 140, 184; ushered in by Jesus, 132–135, 139–142
penal substitution, 138
Pentecostals, early, 228
perfection, 47
Peter, 214, 218–219
Philip, 181–183, 186, 222
Planet of the Apes (film), 123–124
Plato, 37–38, 47, 176, 263n1, 264nn2,4, 266n17
Platonic-Aristotelian dualism: affect on Roman mind, 38–40; basic arguments, 37–38, 81, 270n6; and the Fall, 41–44, 48, 50; and the Greco-Roman narrative, 140, 198, 264n3, 267n7
Plotinus, 37–38
pluralism: degrees of maturity/evolving poverty, 7, 127, and, 105–106; guidance from scripture on, 209–211; importance of issues around, 207–208; and Jesus’s teachings, 209, 211–212, 222–224, 292n32; need for ortho-affinity in, 29; at odds with Greco-Roman mind, 212–215; potential for change through, 215–216, 235–237, 288n8; questions about, 21, 232, 255; “reflex verses” and, 212, 216–223, 290n21, 291n28; religion’s historic failure at, 207–209, 287n2
politics, 6–9, 69, 122, 192–193, 230
postmillennialism, 201
postmodern church: breaking from Greco-Roman tradition, 214–216; church change-agentry for, 247–251, 296n8; collectivism in the, 26–27; different levels of development in, 233–234; early church as example for, 163–164, 166–170, 181–183; God’s work in, 225–227; message/ mission of the, 164–165, 170–171, 279n9; modern church transition to, 8–9, 11–13, 242–244, 259, 278n3; questions about, 20, 161–162, 170–171; as school of love, 168–172, 280n13. See also quest
poverty, 7, 127, 133, 231, 253, 255
power, 126, 230, 233, 236, 237
premarital sex, 186–188
premillennialism, 201
pride, spiritual, 147–148, 153, 234, 237
promiscuity, 187–189
promised land. See peaceable kingdom
Protestant church, 8–10, 16–17, 91–92,209, 256–259
psychology/psychiatry, 68
Ptolemy, Claudius, 15–16
Puritans, 24–25 purity, 249
quest (ubuntu): as agency of God, 225–227, 239–241, 251, 258; challenges to the individual, 242–246, 257–259, 294n1; church change-agentry, 247–251, 296n8; echoing the Reformation, 256–259; engaging others in, 243–244; essence and purpose of, 17–18, 226, 232–233, 262n2; handling resistance to change, 244–246; inclusion and transcendence essential to, 234–239; involving spiritual growth, 228–229, 238–240; preparation for the, 24–29; questions and the, 18–23, 31, 254–255, 257; signs of realized, 252–253; support for the, 29–30, 171, 227–228, 239–241; translating into action, 21–22, 225–226, 244; in various languages/cultures, 232–233; zones of the, 229–233
radio-orthodoxy, 7
reading groups, 250
reality, 37–38
reason, 39, 231
redemption, 34, 35, 138, 195–196,276n10
Reformation, 16–17, 91–92, 256–259
relativism, 214, 232, 237, 238
repentance, 77, 140, 259
resurrection, 129–130
Revelation, 122–126, 286n26
Robinson, John, 24–25
Roman Catholic Church, 8–10, 16–17, 163, 189, 209, 247
Roman Empire, 12, 124–125, 138–139,264n2
“Roman Protestants,” 137, 144
Romans (Paul’s letter to): Christian’s reverence for, 137; on love, 154–156; on plurality, 152–154,