The Kingdom of God and the Son of Man: A Study in the History of Religion

by Rudolf Otto

Overview

This work, originally published in German as Reichgottes und Menschensohn, created an even greater impression, and has had to be reckoned with in all subsequent studies of the person and work of Jesus Christ, particularly from the point of view of his 'Messianic self-consciousness'. The first English translation was published in 1938 and the present volume is a reprint of the substantially revised edition of 1943. Translated by Floyd Filson and Bertram Lee-Wolff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780227173107
Publisher:	James Clarke & Co. Ltd
Publication date:	07/29/2010
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Notes to the English Editions 9

Book 1 The Kingdom of God in Christ's Preaching

Part I The Antecedents of Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom

Chapter 1 Introduction 13

Chapter 2 The Aryan Line of Development: The Kingdom of Asura 20

Chapter 3 The Israelite and Jewish Line of Development: The 'Malkuth Yahweh' 34

Part II The Kingdom of God as Preached by Jesus

Chapter 4 Characteristics of Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom 47

Chapter 5 Concerning the Eschatological Type and its Essential Irrationality 59

Part III The Original Element in Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom as Compared with the Message and Person of John the Baptist

Chapter 6 Theses 67

Chapter 7 The Kingdom of Heaven Replaces the Day of Yahweh 69

Chapter 8 The Kingdom of God at Hand as a Redemptive Realm of Salvation and as 'Dynamis' 72

Chapter 9 The Contrast between the Person and Message of Jesus and the Person and Message of John 76

Chapter 10 The Literary Treatment of Jesus' Pronouncements on the Inbreaking Kingdom 82

Part IV Detailed Consideration of the Message that the Kingdom Is at Hand

Chapter 11 The Kingdom of God Expels the Kingdom of Satan 97

Chapter 12 The Kingdom of God Exercises its Force 108

Chapter 13 God's Seed, not Man's Deed.-The Mystery Implied by the words 'Of Itself' 113

Chapter 14 The Mustard Seed, the Leaven, the Net, the Treasure in the Field, the Pearl of Great Price 123

Chapter 15 The Kingdom of God Is in Your Midst 131

Chapter 16 The Power to See the Mystery of the Kingdom of God as Already Present 138

Chapter 17 Hidden, That It May Become Manifest 147

Chapter 18 The Reasons for the Eclipse and Disappearance of the Idea of the Kingdom as Dawning Already 150

Chapter 19 Conclusion 155

Book 2 The Kingdom of God and the Son of Man

Chapter 1 Jesus as the Eschatological Redeemer and as Distinguished from all Mere Prophets and as Integral to the Eschatological Order Itself 159

Chapter 2 Jesus' Consciousness of Mission Regarded Apart from its Messianic Dress 162

Chapter 3 The Necessity of a Messianic Conception 174

Chapter 4 The Son of Man and the Book of Enoch 176

Chapter 5 Enoch Himself as the Son of Man 201

Chapter 6 Jesus' Messianic Utterances and Attitudes 219

Chapter 7 Jesus' Designation of Himself as the Son of Man 226

Chapter 8 Jesus' Designation of Himself as the Son of Man instead of the Simple Expression 'I' 230

Chapter 9 He That Is to Be Exalted 237

Chapter 10 The New 'Didache': The Messiah Who Saves through Suffering 244

Chapter 11 The Son of Man as the Suffering Servant of God 249

Chapter 12 The Ideas Associated with the Term 'Lutron' 256

Book 3 Christ's Last Supper as the Consecration of the Disciples for entrance into the Kingdom of God

Chapter 1 The New Testament Accounts of Christ's Last Supper 265

Chapter 2 The Original Account 269

Chapter 3 The Category of Christ's Action at the Last Supper 277

Chapter 4 The Eschatological Cup of Blessing 285

Chapter 5 The 'Diatheke' of a Looking Forward to the Kingdom of God 289

Chapter 6 The Word of Institution at the Distribution of the Bread: Christ not the Food of the Soul, but Broken in Death 296

Chapter 7 The Special Category of Christ's Action with the Bread 299

Chapter 8 The Acted Prediction, Typified by the Prophetic Oth 300

Chapter 9 Effective Representation with the Aim of Giving Participation in the Thing Represented 302

Chapter 10 The Associations of Sacramental Eating 306

Chapter 11 Summary of Results 310

Chapter 12 The Later Developments, Alterations, and Dislocations of Meaning 312

Chapter 13 Conclusion 330

Book 4 The Kingdom of God and the 'Charisma'

Chapter 1 The Charismatic Type 333

Chapter 2 Christ Himself Primarily Charismatic 344

Chapter 3 The Gift of Healing and Exorcism 346

Chapter 4 Charismatic Preaching and the Distinguishing of Spirits 351

Chapter 5 The 'Charisma' of Prophecy: Other Charismatic Traits 357

Chapter 6 Charismatic 'Apparitio': Christ's Walking on the Sea 368

Chapter 7 Conclusion 375

Book 5 Appendices

1 Windisch on the Pneumatic Character of Christ 379

2 Literary Comparison between the Preaching of Jesus and the Book of Enoch 382

3 The Enoch Tradition in the Formation of Legend in the Primitive Church 388

4 Son of Man and Primordial Man 389

5 No One Knows the Father Save Only the Son 393

6 Gnostic Elements in Enoch's Apocalyptic 396

Index of Names 399

Reference Index 402