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The Problem Posed by the Severe Sayings Attributed to Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Alan M. Fairhurst
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In his book In the end, God… Dr J. A. T. Robinson argues for luniversalism from two myths of the end, one taken from Matthew 25.31–46 and the other from Paul (London: James Clarke, 1950, p. 99 f). If the two myths were both taken from the sayings of Jesus his argument would be immeasurably stronger, though it is fair to add that he does see them both being represented in the present in John 3.17–18 (p. ioo).2

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 77 - 91
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1970

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page 77 note 2 Dr Robinson's early dating of St. John's Gospel is of obvious significance in the universalist debate. E.g. 12.32, perhaps the most powerful support in the gospels; cf. Temple, William, Readings in St. John's Gospel, 1938, 1939, on this passage.Google Scholar

page 80 note 1 cf. Barrett, C. K., Jesus and the Gospel Tradition, 1967, pp. 8, 76 f.Google Scholar

page 81 note 1 Such as Volz, P., Jüdische Eschatologk von Daniel bis Akiba, Tübingen, 1903.Google Scholar

page 81 note 2 Spencer, F. A. M., The Future Life (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1935), p. 120.Google Scholar

page 82 note 1 Originally part II of The Mission and Message of Jesus, 1937. Quoted in this paper from separate 1947 printing (London: S.C.M. Press).

page 82 note 2 Oscar Cullmann.

page 84 note 1 e.g. the major works of H. E. Tödt, A. J. B. Higgins and F. H. Borsch.

page 88 note 1 The World to Come and Final Destiny, Edinburgh: T. & T, Clark, 1922, p. 157 f.

page 89 note 1 Thou Art There Also, London: S.P.C.K., 1968, p.16.Google Scholar

page 90 note 1 Weatherhead, L., The After-World of the Poets, 1929, pp. 48–78.Google Scholar

page 90 note 2 Three Essays, London, 1874, p.114.

page 90 note 3 Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1958 ed., p. 87.

page 91 note 1 For a more theological argument for the salvation of Judas: Karl Barth, Dogmatics, II.2 (E.T.), pp. 458 ff.

page 91 note 2 See The Expository Times, vol. LXXX, No. 1 ff, for series ‘Uncomfortable Words’.