{"id":179,"date":"2015-05-21T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:31:10","slug":"the-pastoral-paul-was-always-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2015\/05\/the-pastoral-paul-was-always-looking-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pastoral Paul Was Always Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonSmith85\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow @BrandonSmith85<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-348 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/criswell.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/ctr-cover.png?w=236&amp;h=377\" alt=\"ctr cover\" width=\"236\" height=\"377\">Yesterday, we looked at Andrew Clarke\u2019s article in the most recent issue of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/criswell.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/19\/criswell-theological-review-issues-in-pauline-studies-spring-2015-issue-12-no-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Criswell Theological Review<\/em><\/a>. Today, I want to highlight one other: \u201cPaul\u2019s Eschatological Outlook in the Pastoral Epistles\u201d by Matthew Emerson (now) of Oklahoma Baptist University. In this article, Emerson contests that the Pastoral Epistles, when considered in light of the New Testament canon, have a thoroughly biblical-theological eschatology set within the already\/not yet schema.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Instead of isolating a few texts (e.g., 1 Tim 4:1; 6:14; 2 Tim 3:1) in a discussion of Paul\u2019s eschatology in the Pastorals, and thereby only seeing eschatology as a minor and under-represented theme in the letters, reading them in the context of the canon sheds light on their thoroughly eschatological character.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s letters to his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s are not merely instructions for pastoral ministry or ecclesial structure or ethical concerns, unhinged from any chronological mooring, but instead are eschatologically charged epistles meant to teach the church how to guard the good deposit and defend against false teaching in between the times. This of course includes instructions about ministry and structure, but these instructions are given within this larger eschatological framework.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>To purchase the entire issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/criswell.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here<\/a>. 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